US national debt currently exceeds $36 trillion, but if you want to toss a few extra dollars of your own money to try and ...

A map shows states with the highest and lowest credit card debt. The data reveals that residents of Alaska, the District of ...

Projections that the bill will increase the national debt over time miss the effects of this and of the nominal spending cuts ...

Eight hundred years of financial folly,” Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart found that over the centuries, a high public debt level has ...

Congress imposes artificial legal limits on the nation’s outstanding debt obligations. Once this is reached, the government no longer can pay bills or fund programs until Congress raises the ceiling ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 3 The Washington Post on One Big Beautiful Bill and a potential debt crisis The odds of a federal debt crisis just got more ...

The odds of a federal debt crisis just got more daunting. On Thursday, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that threatens to leave the government with one big ...

A thought experiment on how we can grow our way out of the national debt problem : Planet Money There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C.

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will increase the national debt by trillions. But that doesn't bother Arizona's self-professed fiscal hawk Republicans.

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will increase the national debt by trillions. But that doesn't bother Arizona's self-professed fiscal hawk Republicans.