Rearmament, an aging population, technological change and fear of voters are fueling a risky trend.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, ran the numbers exclusively for Fortune.
Spiraling interest payments—which grew from $352 billion in 2021 to $970 billion in 2025—put the debt train on an accelerated ...
The sweeping legislation, which passed in July, renewed the 2017 tax cuts for individuals and granted additional tax breaks, ...
It hardly seems like a day or week goes by that we don’t hear something on the news about the economy. Often, it is the jobs ...
The United States' national debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by the White House ...
Use CRFB’s Adjusted August 2025 Baseline, which accounts for the projected impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), ...
The United States borrowed $602 billion in the first three months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $145 billion in the month of December, according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement f ...
He argued deficit reduction reduces inflationary pressures on the economy. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that the federal government will pay down the national debt this quarter for the first ...
The Rules Committee must suggest rule changes to help meet the target, including making budget rules more difficult to waive ...
European officials are quietly debating a financial weapon that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: using their vast ...
Rising public debt again is a central concern for Latin American economies amid low growth, high financing costs and an ...