Fitch Ratings downgraded the country's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA on Monday, Aug. 1, because "the repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute.
Inflation has been a heavy weight on consumers' minds across the country and the globe over the past couple of years. Prices crept up at the supermarket, the gas station and beyond. Last June,.
The roughly $5 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus spending was one of the boldest experiments in the history of America's social safety net. Proponents of the legislation that authorized the aid said an.