Budget officials, Walz and lawmakers all express a need for modest budgeting decisions this session despite improvements in ...

In a provocative challenge to traditional economic anxieties, top economist Justin Wolfers is reframing the widening U.S. trade gap not as a fiscal failure, but as an enormous physical “surplus” that ...

Minnesota’s projected budget surplus has grown to nearly $2.5 billion in the current two-year budget cycle, though a projected shortfall of almost $3 billion is expected in the following two years.

A resilient state and national economy has helped turn Minnesota’s looming budget shortfall into a small projected surplus in ...

The U.S. government recorded a surplus in June, bolstered by increased tariff collections, the Treasury Department has reported. The surplus amounted to a little more than $27 billion, a stark ...