Tag: national debt

The U.S. government is technically insolvent, with its liabilities far exceeding its assets, and its financial condition is deteriorating with each ...

U.S. debt is expected to continue soaring in the coming decades not because of excesses committed by future lawmakers, although ...

The United States has crossed a grim threshold: the national debt now exceeds the size of the entire American economy. ...

Dr Phillip Swagel is an optimist, both by nature and when he looks at the U.S. economy.This fact is perhaps ...

Soaring U.S. debt is causing Treasury bonds to lose their risk advantage over other securities, making it more expensive to ...

German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant argued in his 1795 essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, that nations should conduct themselves ...

President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget is built on a single, load-bearing bet: that the U.S. economy can grow at ...

There’s an idea about how political power is supposed to work in the U.S. To guard against anything resembling monarchy, ...

Budget hawks in Washington have their eyes trained on April 3, when the White House is scheduled to release its ...

The year was 1974 and President Richard Nixon had dispatched his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia to ...

The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated ...

This rom-com formula is now a staple of holiday TV programming: a busy professional from the big city goes back ...

On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office released its closely-watched, 10-year projections for the U.S. budget, this addition covering FYs ...

The U.S. has never been more financially exposed heading into a potential economic crisis. With the national debt now equal ...

When the Supreme Court ruled late last month that the majority of tariffs implemented by the second Trump administration in ...