The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...

History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

Trump’s ambitious fiscal push, along with a generational-scale tariff aggression, is putting the US’s credit status to the test again.

Elevated interest rates relative to the post-GFC years add to the challenge of servicing high debt levels. Read more here.

We calculate that swapping all gilts into current coupon bonds in a bondholder-friendly exchange could wipe £355bn off the face value of government debt and cut the debt-to-GDP ratio by around 13 ...

The increasing trend of deficit and total debt is generating less gross domestic product (GDP) annually. It’s not a debate, ...

As Elon Musk argues, rising national debt and debt servicing costs are curtailing the growth prospects of the U.S. economy.

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

There has been much discussion of the so-called "Trump put" for equities, but perhaps more attention should be paid to the ...

If the U.S. government were a private-sector company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago to wash away its debt. But ...

The United States of America is never going to default, that is never going to happen,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ...

The U.S. will pay $1 trillion in interest on the $36 trillion national debt next year, more than it spends on Medicare and ...