When President Trump announced his plans for a new tariff regime, he said the action was…
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US debt: This may be the maximum that’s sustainable before interest payments trigger a crisis
Soaring U.S. debt and projections that put it at astronomical levels in the coming years have…
Surging Treasury yields show America has no margin for error on its $31 trillion debt
In the days before the Memorial Day weekend, rates on 30 year Treasury bonds hit their…
US debt is the ‘elephant in the room’ amid bond rout as interest costs could drive larger deficits
Recent weeks have seen a major selloff in the bond market as high oil prices spike…
CBO: US Treasury has paid $3 billion a day to service $39 trillion debt in 2026
The U.S. Treasury has paid $628 billion in net interest this year to service its borrowing,…
‘This is the way’: Elon Musk endorses Warren Buffett’s famed 5-minute plan to fix the national debt
The national debt is set to reach $40 trillion in the near future if it continues…
The government must issue more debt than expected on weak cash flow — ‘the bond market is shouting’
The Treasury Department announced this week that it expects to borrow more than anticipated in ?the…
Treasury expected to borrow $2 trillion this year—more than $166 billion every month
The U.S. Treasury will likely have borrowed more than $2 trillion by the end of the…
AI could solve America’s $39 trillion debt crisis—but only if U.S. abandons displaced workers: Yale
The big bet on AI—the near-trillion dollars that hyperscalers are spending to build out the technology’s…
Interest on US debt is a top driver of future deficits, as past borrowing overwhelms fiscal outlook
U.S. debt is expected to continue soaring in the coming decades not because of excesses committed…
‘Cut up the credit cards:’ Members of Congress call for action after US debt surpasses GDP
The value of debt held by the public has officially surpassed the size of the U.S.…
The national debt is the same size as the economy. It’s a ‘disturbing warning and a call to action,’ watchdog says
Six months before Election Day, America’s $39 trillion national debt has moved from an abstract fiscal…
‘The national debt is now larger than the economy’: Watchdog marks milestone for $39 trillion burden
The United States has crossed a grim threshold: the national debt now exceeds the size of…
The debt crisis Congress has been ignoring could cost the average U.S. household $18,000 a year
An excellent new study from the non-partisan Brookings Institution provides an ultra-sobering view of the potential…