Deficits

Health Minister Mark Holland signalled Tuesday the government is unlikely to meet the end-of-the-year deadline imposed by the NDP for passing pharmacare legislation — a condition of the supply-and-confidence agreement that was struck to…

The US has been running deficits almost every year since the 1960s without triggering a serious financial crisis. So the conventional wisdom is that deficits don’t matter.  Many economists argue that they pay for themselves if the economic…

Mutations of a gene called Foxp2 have been linked to a type of speech disorder called apraxia that makes it difficult to produce sequences of sound. A new study from MIT and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University sheds light on how this…

President Joe Biden’s upcoming budget proposal aims to cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade, the White House said Wednesday.That deficit reduction goal is significantly higher than the $2 trillion that Biden had promised…

Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral changes. Many brain studies have focused on the effects social deprivation has on neurons, but…

Last Updated: December 31, 2022, 14:32 ISTPakistan's Ministry of Finance in its Monthly Economic Update and Outlook says that the economic growth is likely to remain below the budgeted target in FY23 due to devastation caused by floods.…

West syndrome, the most prevalent type of syndromic epileptic encephalopathy affecting infants, is a devastating and often fatal condition. It is characterized by a triad of symptoms -- seizures/spasms, a signature brain activity between…

A single mutation in a gene, Kcnc3, which encodes a potassium channel in neurons, causes learning deficits in mice, UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study in PNAS. The novel mutation decreases the activity of neurons in the…

BEIJING : China can consider further deficit spending by the central and local governments, if needed, to finance support for small businesses, a former finance minister said on Saturday. To spur consumption, some local governments…

As Americans deal with the highest inflation in decades, President Biden has declared that combating rising costs is a priority for his administration. Lately, he has cited one policy in particular as an inflation-fighting tool: shrinking…