They're slated to lead Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, and it's a step in the right direction given the national ...

When you ask a politician, regardless of political party, why they do not campaign for policies to reduce the national debt, ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has rewritten the fiscal rulebook but will this new approach to borrowing fuel growth, or is it a ...

In the third quarter, household debt soared by $147 billion, with increases across mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans.

for example — can be bought and sold on the secondary market. Nonmarketable securities, like U.S. savings bonds, cannot. Presidents have a significant impact on both the national debt and the ...

Trump & Harris propose tax cuts/spending increases that would add trillions to debt. Neither plan is sustainable, per ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The US has a big, $35 trillion problem: the national debt. After a bout of pandemic stimulus, the national debt ballooned from an already ...

A review of the economic plans of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris finds that both would lead to increases in the national debt, but that Trump would do more damage ...

National debt serves a useful purpose in recessions and emergencies. For example, in the Great Recession (2007-2010) that President Obama’s administration faced, federal government ended up ...

Our national debt puts us at risk economically and militarily ... but their policies actually make it worse. For example, extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, which are set to expire after ...