Yahoo Finance anchor Julie Hyman joins Asking for a Trend with Josh Lipton to examine forecasts to the United States' debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio, according to data from Deutsche Bank, ...

Debt is simply the total amount of money the US government owes to its lenders, currently amounting to $36.2 trillion. This ...

Without substantive corrective fiscal measures, the US general government debt ratio will reach 133% of GDP by 2030, ...

This is the highest level since World War II. In the 1970s and 1980s, the debt/GDP ratio was consistently in the 30%-40% range, and moved up toward 60% by 2000. The debt level soared around 2010 ...

The national debt would equal somewhere between 124 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and 129 percent of GDP by 2034. That's above the 117 percent debt-to-GDP ratio that would result if ...