The U.S. national debt surpassed $40 trillion, nearly $300,000 per household, as the debt-to-GDP ratio hits 124% with few ...

The U.S. national debt surpasssed $40 trillion. Experts explain how it raises your mortgage and lowers your wages.

America’s problem is not that investors have stopped trusting Treasury debt, but that they increasingly want to be paid more ...

In 1790, Alexander Hamilton faced a young country buried under Revolutionary War debt. His solution was to consolidate the obligations of the states into a single national debt and commit the federal ...

In the last 18 years, the federal debt has quadrupled. In that time, has the standard of living of most Americans improved dramatically? While some Americans are doing well, there are 35.9 million ...