The Philippines’ running sovereign debt stock has ballooned further to a fresh record-high of nearly P17 trillion as of end-May 2025 amid continued capital raising efforts by the government to back ...

Donald Trump as a candidate promised his policies wouldn’t add to the debt. Before taking office, he vowed “to restore fiscal ...

Wall Street dealers — until recently expecting US government debt auction sizes to resume growing next year — are going back to the drawing board after comments by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...

A look back at the history of the national debt, and what the GOP’s new budget bill might mean for the debt going forward.

As Republicans have pushed forward on a bill expected to drive the debt higher, Trump has stepped up his campaign against ...

The federal government will borrow more money than the states this year for the first time since the pandemic, heaping more pressure on Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

As it begins its 249th year in business as a country, the United States owes more than $30 trillion in debt and spends nearly $2 trillion more per year than it collects. Those numbers won’t be ...

S&P Global Ratings said the NATO 3.5% GDP core defense spending target could add $2 trillion of government debt across European member countries by 2035.

The last of the pandemic-era forbearance ended in September 2023; defaults began to appear on credit records in the first ...

Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender explains how President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' aims to grow the ...

The level of sovereign debt in India is much lower than in nations like the US, Japan or France. The country's central ...

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...