The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the total has expanded rapidly since 2008.

The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee data shows that the national debt is close to $38 trillion and increasing at a ...

President Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. growth can tame debt echoes what Ray Dalio has called the most dangerous phase ...

Financial markets are entering a new paradigm in which tangible fixed investment is replacing financial engineering, argues ...

The US debt is edging toward $38 trillion, rising $4.2 million every minute, reinforcing Bitcoin’s case as a hedge against ...

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 ...

US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole conference. “Until ...

LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Treasury said it plans to sell $18 billion in longerterm debt at quarterly auctions next week, the lowest total in 23 years, and signaled that debt sales may rise next year as ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday threw cold water on the idea that Americans could soon receive tariff rebate checks. Bessent, during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” said that revenue ...

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. government tariff revenues are bolstering the Treasury's coffers and its sovereign credit rating, but the durability of that cash flow is questionable and markets still ...