The Taliban government in Afghanistan has blasted as “stealing” a recent decision by the US government to use billions of dollars of frozen Afghan assets to compensate the victims of 9/11 attacks.

The US budget deficit reaches a record $1.9 trillion just in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department's monthly budget report.

A US trade delegation has met with senior Chinese officials for a second day in the capital Beijing, in an effort to resolve escalating trade tensions between the two countries.

Donald Trump failed to live up to his promise to get rid of the Washington lobbyists and the Wall Street insiders.

The financial crisis of 2008 did not teach a lesson to the institutions that committed the frauds, but were eventually bailed out by US tax payer money.