A government debt sale this week went poorly because potential buyers were spooked by tariffs.
Try not to hold onto them past their maturation date.
Investors fear missing out on higher rates of return by locking up the money they put in for 10 years or more.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note reached a 16-year high Tuesday. That benchmark rate lifts interest rates on other loans.
The treasury secretary urges Congress to protect nation’s “full faith and credit” by raising the government’s borrowing authority.
Several of them were responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
Besides testifying in hearings, regulators need to get a few messages across, including that the system worked, a PR executive says.
The Treasury secretary says “people don’t need to lose their jobs” to cool down the labor market.
The U.S. government hit its debt ceiling Thursday and must raise the debt limit to avoid defaulting. How did we get here?
In the 1950s, the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve reached an agreement that helped create the economy we have today.