A federal call is a margin call issued under Regulation T, requiring at least 50% cash to fund securities purchases. Learn how it works and its impact on your investments.

Understand functional regulation, its benefits, criticisms, and how it compares with institutional regulation. Learn about ...

No government should pressure a bank to cut off customers innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet that is what happened with ...

Your paycheck could be slightly larger in 2026 based on the latest IRS tax bracket changes. Some workers could also see withholding changes from the new provisions enacted via President Donald Trump's ...

A federal judge in California ruled Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can share Medicaid data with immigration enforcement authorities, but he kept in place limits on what ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the loosening of federal regulations on marijuana, a move that could further reverse decades of ...

State capitals are used to hard questions about federal power, but this time it is not over taxes or guns—it is about algorithms. In the hours since President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the Justice Department to challenge state artificial intelligence laws, setting up a direct confrontation with states that had ...

Thousands of high school seniors are filling out their federal financial aid form or FAFSA. Numbers show a record increase in applications despite confidence in higher ed being at a low. The number of ...

In public finance, the national debt is one of the oldest stories in Washington, and yet now the most urgent. It took 205 years for our country to accumulate its first trillion dollars in debt, and ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point for the third time this year on Wednesday while projecting one more cut for 2026. The central bank voted in a split decision to ...

John Thompson had been working at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for over a decade when he and his colleagues were abruptly ordered to halt work. It was February, and the Trump ...