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

A closer look at the U.S. government's $36 trillion debt — some of which is "intergovernmental," meaning money the government ...

Republicans bet on the economy growing faster than reasonable to cover plans that could reignite inflation, rising interest ...

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 ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) 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 ...