Republicans in Congress are hashing out a new tax cut and spending bill that's projected to add trillions to the national debt. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains the ballooning national ...

The U.S. national debt is a mix of government bonds that trade daily and non-marketable securities that sit exclusively on ...

The United States’ about-face on Europe under President Donald Trump has come as a geopolitical and economic shock. Although ...

The U.K.’s economic growth is expected to stay modest while the country’s public finances remain squeezed, the OECD said ...

That’s a 6.3 percentage point increase in government spending and a 25.2 percentage point increase in government debt as a share of the national ... faster than the United Kingdom during the ...

The “debt doesn’t matter” consensus had a strong start. During the coronavirus pandemic, Congress spent trillions of dollars ...

She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including ... potentially leading to mounting U.S. debt and a worsening fiscal outlook, according to economists ...

The United Kingdom helped us, after 27 years, to develop the National Development Strategy (NDS ... with specific countries is whether we are burdening our children with debt or taking these funds ...

One of the greatest challenges facing the United States today is our staggering $36 trillion national debt. This burden threatens our economic future and demands serious, strategic action.

Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street Thursday in what has been a rocky week so far because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government’s mounting debt.

The United States is fast approaching a level of national debt unseen since the end of World War II — and it could happen much sooner than previously projected. New estimates warn that a ...

This seems unlikely, because since 1980 both the Republican and Democratic parties have been increasing federal government debt. Last year the interest payment on this massive debt was 880 billion ...