The country risks an economic "heart attack" if lawmakers are unable to reel in the national debt, warns one hedge fund ...

contributed the largest percentage increase to U.S. national debt to date. Roosevelt entered office when the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression, the longest economic recession ...

Let’s hope that Elon Musk is, indeed, a latter-day Grant, doggedly pursuing the spending that strangles our country, demanding the unconditional surrender of those who will somehow claim that ...

Ray Dalio, the founder of the world's largest hedge fund, recently warned of serious economic consequences for the U.S. if ...

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico could upend U.S. trade. These nine charts show what’s at stake, what ...

Republicans are betting trillions on the hope that the economy will grow fast enough to cover their deficit spree.

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

Donald Trump’s second term in office is already generating controversy on topics as diverse as birthright citizenship and ...

The incoming president and his Republican allies are beginning to plot out major changes to federal taxes and spending as they prepare to take control of Washington.

Puerto Rico is a political paradox: part of the United States but distinct ... with the combined effects of economic depression, shrinking population, debt crisis and bankruptcy, natural disasters ...