The federal government announced that the 2025 budget deficit came in at $1.8 trillion vs. a CBO estimate of $1.9 trillion. The lower-than-expected deficit was primarily driven by higher-than-forecast ...

Budget forecasting may be an imperfect art prone to lots of error, but when researchers looked at how forecasts and reality measured up, the errors ran mostly in one direction. Jeffrey A. Frankel and ...

The new forecast from the Minnesota Department of Budget and Management shows an "improved" budget outlook. The 2026-2027 fiscal year balance is now projected at $3.7 billion, $1.3 billion higher than ...

State government officials released the semiannual budget and economic forecast, rich with underreported developments. Here are two.

A new state budget forecast gives a stronger financial outlook for Minnesota, but top elected officials cautioned that uncertainty surrounding federal funding and program fraud are still points of ...

Minnesota lawmakers will return to the Capitol in February with a near-term surplus of nearly $2.5 billion, but the latest economic forecast released Thursday sparked more debate about who’s to blame ...

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A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has exposed persistent and significant errors in Nigeria’s fiscal forecasting between 2011 and 2023, raising serious concerns over the credibility ...

Washington lawmakers and the governor Tuesday got the grim state revenue news they’ve been expecting. Estimates show tax collections for the two-year operating budget that begins July 1 will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington state Capitol building in Olympia. (Photo by Bill Lucia/Washington State Standard) Washington state budget writers ...

Washington state budget writers got a mild dose of good news on Tuesday, but are still looking at a strained balance sheet. Revenue projections show collections up $105 million for the current ...