America’s debt has grown rapidly over the last decade as the population ages and enrollment in Social Security and Medicare ...

The national debt is the total that a country owes to its creditors. This includes debt held by the public and ...

America's debt mountain is eye-watering. The interest alone costs $1.21 trillion annually— 17% of total federal spending.

On Sunday, November 2, tech billionaire Elon Musk renewed his warning about America’s fiscal outlook. He said the federal debt has grown so large that it can’t be fixed without a major jump in ...

The government’s projection that the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product (GDP) would reach 52% by 2040—a figure ...

The US national debt is now as large as the combined gross domestic product (GDP) of the second to the sixth-largest economies in the world, according to the nonpartisan watchdog Peter G. Peterson ...

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your financial health.

U.S. debt hits $38 trillion, adding $500 billion this month alone — $114,000 per American. The total debt now equals 324% of ...

Treasury says the deficit is shrinking. Economists say the debt is compounding faster than at any point in modern history, ...

Promising tax cuts without offsetting spending cuts is politically painless so long as constituents believe they “pay for ...

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In the run-up to what is expected to be a big-spending federal budget, a growing number of economists are predicting that the ...