The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the government and economy.

The U.S. tax and spending bill passed on July 3 is expected to add more than $3 trillion to the country’s deficit over the ...

History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

As of July 3, 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at $36.2 trillion. Much like bank loans, the national debt has interest ...

Trump’s ambitious fiscal push, along with a generational-scale tariff aggression, is putting the US’s credit status to the test again.

Start with a global perspective. Data from the IMF in April show that America had the eighth-highest net public debt-to-GDP ratio in the world (see chart 1). Some other advanced economies sit ...

Right now, the total market cap for stablecoins is about $230 billion, and most of that is backed by short-term government debt like T-bills. Geoff Kendrick, a London-based analyst at StanChart ...