Is America heading toward a national debt crisis? As an economic adviser to President Biden and an economist active in mainly ...

Washington quickly brushed off a startling milestone in a mounting problem. By Peter Coy For years, deficit hawks have been ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned in a new interview that the U.S. government's rising debt and budget deficits are a problem that will eventually cause bond market issues, and offered his ...

The U.S. national debt is the accumulation of money borrowed to cover the national deficit over time. The highest level of ...

The United States national debt has now grown beyond the size of the country’s GDP, punctuating a long-running trajectory ...

Federal debt held by the public now surpasses the total value of the nation's economic output. Here's why experts say that's ...

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, cautioned on NPR's Newsmakers podcast this week that the country's $39 trillion debt is heading somewhere bad. He just can't tell you exactly when it'll become a ...

No individual, corporation, or government ever gets to choose how much money to borrow. Only in academic and pundit circles is such a fanciful notion accepted as realistic. Which requires a brief ...

US debt now exceeds the economy, and rising interest costs are adding pressure, raising questions about how sustainable our ...

Every four years, Americans fall in love with a fantasy. A new president will change the federal deficit. Republicans promise growth will outrun the debt. Democrats promise taxes on the rich will fix ...