U.S. national debt hits historic $39 trillion milestone, growing from $38 trillion in five months as deficits surge and ...

Budget experts agree on one thing. The debt is on an "unsustainable" trajectory.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sees a critical threshold crossing by 2031—and the consequences could be ...

"It's one of those things that's almost like the old law," Richard Haass told Fortune. "It's fine until the day it's not." ...

On March 17, the U.S. national debt slipped above $39 trillion. If you're thinking, 'Wow, it seems like we just crossed the ...

Trump is putting the U.S. economy on a "sugar high" and leaving other people holding the bill when it comes due a decade from ...

The gross national debt of the United States reached $39 trillion yesterday, according to the U.S. Treasury. The gross debt reached its previous milestone of $38 trillion in October of last year.

Elon Musk has endorsed Warren Buffett's radical '5-minute' proposal to eliminate the US deficit as the national debt hits a ...

In the book When We Are Free, an anthology published by Northwood University Press with a foreword by Milton Friedman, economic historian Dr. Lawrence W. Reed contributed a chapter titled Th ...

The richest man in the world joins prominent financial leaders in supporting a plan to lower the deficit to 3% of GDP.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns that war spending could tip into a fiscal crisis — and it's calling for ...

The Social Security retirement trust fund is projected to go insolvent in Fiscal Year (FY) 2032 under the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new ...