Government Interest Rates and Budgets

This week I wanted to really understand how government interest rates are set and how our government sets the budget.

The American Government Closed?

I know that I am fairly young but I am also not a spring chicken. The thought of a government shutdown is very foreign to me. What in fact dose this mean? All my life I have said that some things are just a sure thing, the American Government would have been one of them.

How should a nation-state develop its foreign policy in accordance to its values and in connection to the development of its domestic policy?

foreign policy