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The U.S. deficit topped $1.8 trillion in 2024, but a bold idea from Warren Buffett is making the rounds again, and this time, ...

Amidst a soaring national debt of $33.8 trillion, Warren Buffett's proposal to disqualify Congress members during high ...

Warren Buffett's decade-old idea to curb America's budget deficits by making Congress members ineligible for re-election if ...

Warren Buffett warns that the U.S. fiscal deficit is on an unsustainable path that will eventually end but no one knows when.

And while neither party has managed to rein in the red ink, legendary investor Warren Buffett once offered a surprisingly ...

The chart below shows how many times per decade Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has outperformed the S&P 500. Each decade, ...

“This bill doesn’t increase the deficit or hurt the debt,” Vought told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” responding to earlier comments from tech billionaire Elon Musk.

It would seem that Warren Buffett agrees, with Berkshire Hathaway doubling its ownership of T-bills and now owning 5% of all short-term Treasuries, according to a recent JPMorgan report. " ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said on Friday she agrees with President Donald Trump's call to eliminate the debt limit, urging bipartisan action to scrap it permanently. In a post on X ...

Billionaire Warren Buffett has funneled $305.5 billion into a safe-haven asset class, while slashing stakes in banking giants Citigroup, Bank of America, and Capital One. New U.S. Securities and ...

America’s status as an aristocratic oligarchy arrived in the form of a dumbly-named piece of legislation — the “Big, Beautiful Bill” — that was passed in the early morning hours by House ...