The federal student loan program will cost the federal government $31 billion over the next decade, according to recent estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Bloomberg Government reported. That’s a shift from past CBO forecasts that the government would profit from the program. The CBO in April 2018...

The Federal Reserve is further amplifying its warnings about the perils of risky corporate debt, saying in a Monday report that the market grew 20 percent last year and that lending standards continue to slip, Bloomberg News reported. In a particularly striking sign, the Fed said the businesses with the biggest existing debt loads are...

The numbers: Banks eased lending terms for large and midsized commercial borrowers in the first three months of the year, according to a Federal Reserve survey of senior loan officers released Monday. Standards on most business loans remained unchanged.