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

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

Fiscal hawks warn that deficits produce higher inflation rates and higher interest rates that harm the poor the most.

The US Treasury has $133 billion of extraordinary measures left, in addition to its cash pile, to help keep paying the ...

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 ...

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

In this edition of the Hot Seat, Mike Murphy from the Committee for Responsible Budget Policy addresses the $36 trillion national debt and its alarming implications for the nation’s stability.

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

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

Donald Trump has been busy in these first days of his return to the presidency of the United States. Last Friday he asked the ...

Over 100 million Americans are saddled with medical debt, but a few initiatives are addressing — or even eliminating — it.