U.S. Treasury Expands Bond Buybacks in Bid to Ease Rising Borrowing Costs
he U.S. Treasury Department is taking an unusually aggressive step to address rising long-term interest rates, expanding its program for buying back government bonds as officials attempt to improve market conditions and potentially reduce borrowing costs across the economy. The move comes after long-term Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels in nearly two decades, […]
Massachusetts Biotech Rebounds as Investment Returns After Years of Industry Turmoil
A growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has become the center of a national controversy over vaccines, public-health communication and political misinformation after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioned whether two recently reported measles-associated deaths were legitimate. The dispute comes as the United States experiences its worst measles outbreak in more than three decades […]
Federal Rural Health Fund Offers Hospitals Relief, but Medicaid Cuts Loom Much Larger
Rural hospitals across the United States are beginning to receive billions of dollars in new federal funding intended to modernize healthcare in underserved communities. But hospital leaders and health-policy experts warn that the temporary assistance is unlikely to compensate for the much larger Medicaid reductions expected over the coming decade. The tension stems from President […]
