The United States now carries one of the largest public debt loads in history, and the raw figures are staggering enough to ...

When you think about national debt, the massive numbers thrown around by wealthy nations like the United States and Japan ...

When discussing national finances, the debt-to-GDP ratio has become the ultimate measuring stick for economic health. Some ...

The U.S. government's budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for ...

After years of disciplined reform and painful sacrifice, Jamaica had done what few global debt specialists thought possible. Through tough and sometimes controversial spending cuts and fiscal ...

The US national debt surpassed another historic milestone as it topped $38 trillion for the first time this week, as the federal government continues to rack up debt at a record-setting pace. New data ...

The national debt just passed $36 trillion, reigniting debates over spending, growth and taxes. But how serious is it, and how will it affect everyday Americans? CU Boulder Today caught up with Shaun ...

President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s national debt to pay for permanent tax cuts. Republicans insist the bill will ...

In their classic book “This Time Is Different: Eight Hundred Years of Financial Folly,” Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart found that over the centuries, a high public debt level has been among the ...