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 ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday extended the department's authority to continue extraordinary cash ...

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 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 ...

The US Treasury will continue using emergency accounting measures to prevent breaching the debt ceiling until July 24, 2025.

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 bond market is bracing for up to $1 trillion of additional U.S. Treasuries supply in the second half of the year once ...

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

If the picture appears bleak for America’s graduates, it is bleaker still for Uncle Sam. Student lending was once profitable ...

"Give us some additional resources that we can use immediately to deal with immediate social challenges” - Maile ...

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