When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, it sparked major discussions on the outlook of the ...

How did debt get so bad in the United States? Join personal finance columnist Helaine Olen as she takes in-depth look at the reality of debt in America. What’s it like to empty out your 401(k ...

Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you add now could slow down economic growth in the future.

Here's how the United States' national debt has grown over the last decade. 2006: $8.5 trillion. In the chart below you can see how the debt has shifted, ...

NEW ORLEANS — The United States National Debt is about $31.46 trillion. But what does that really mean, and who do we owe all that money to? First: this is nothing new. The United States has had ...

Publicly held debt in the United States will exceed 76 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013, and chronic deficits are projected to push U.S. debt to 87 percent of the economy in 10 years.

The U.S. has $30.9 trillion in national debt, including $24.3 trillion held by the public and $6.6 trillion in intragovernmental holdings, according to Treasury Department data.