Budgetary experts have been promising us a future “crisis” related to the national debt for years, and in some instances, decades. If you’re reading this, you likely know some of their names: ...

Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so routinely and confidently ...

Republicans in Congress are hashing out a new tax cut and spending bill that's projected to add trillions to the national debt. We will get to some of those specifics in just a moment. But, first, let ...

While headlines focus on inflation, market instability, and job growth, another crisis has been quietly unfolding: student loan debt. As of April 2025, roughly 5.8 million federal student loan ...

The United States national debt has reached a precarious milestone, hitting 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and placing the nation on a trajectory that could trigger six distinct types of fiscal ...

Top experts are sounding the alarm about a potential debt crisis, Goldman Sachs said. The bank interviewed three economy pros about their outlook for the US fiscal situation. The top insights from Ray ...

The economic shocks from Trump’s war on Iran are undermining countries’ reliance on U.S. debt and fiat currency. If this snowballs, America has the most to lose. But that is not the crisis we are ...

I have not been a debt hawk for most of my 30-year career; however, that has changed recently. Continued high deficit spending by the U.S. government combined with a compacting of U.S. Treasury bond ...

Cash is an underappreciated asset, especially as high valuations, margin debt, and consumer debt signal a potential market top. Record consumer debt, declining sentiment, and a weakening job market ...

The tax cuts bill currently being debated by the US Senate will add another US$3 trillion (A$4.6 trillion) to US debt. President Donald Trump calls it the “big, beautiful bill”; his erstwhile policy ...