America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

I can’t tell if Starforge Systems’ Voyager II Elite gaming PC is obnoxiously heavy, or if I’m simply nearing middle-age. As the Old El Paso girl once said: Why not both? Here are some astute ...

Consider the junk-bond spread, which is the additional yield above ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for incurring the risk of high-yield, or "junk" bonds. Nowadays they're not ...

Still, the 10-year Treasury yield is a lending benchmark for things like the 30-year mortgage, and lower yields could help influence consumer borrowing costs to come down. Yields fall when bond ...

Vanguard launched two short-term fixed-income exchange-traded funds Tuesday, adding to a spate of recent ETF launches by asset managers. The company’s Ultra-Short Treasury ETF (VGUS) and Vanguard 0-3 ...

The age-old adage that "Treasury bonds are for safety" is misleading when you consider the sheer variety within this segment of fixed income. While all U.S. Treasury securities are backed by the ...

Two Treasury Department employees affiliated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency will keep limited access to the highly sensitive payment system within the agency, following ...

The Treasury Department is appointing an ally of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service to a senior position in the department overseeing the nation’s powerful payment systems, according to ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new plan in the fight to bring down historically high interest rates, and it’s got nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. Bessent, in two interviews this ...

Bond yields (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) climbed in 2024, spiking particularly when the Federal Reserve signaled it may only cut interest rates twice in 2025. The US Treasury Department reported that it was ...

Elon Musk responded to a federal judge's order temporarily blocking the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive Treasury Department data with a blitz of X posts alleging ...

Trump administration appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury’s sensitive payment system to block disbursements. By Andrew Duehren Alan Rappeport and Theodore Schleifer In ...