The US debt currently sits at around $36.6 trillion and the government is, once again, approaching its legal borrowing limit.

Ronald Reagan managed to triple the government debt by lowering taxes for the rich, increasing military spending, and more.

According to the U.S. GAO, debt held by the public relative to GDP increased during wartime and recessions but then decreased during peacetime and periods of economic growth for most of the nation’s ...

Between Congress working on the budget and discussing changes to the tax code and job cuts taking place across the federal government by the Department of Government Efficiency ...

Overall U.S. debt peaked in 2009 at a then-record 252% ... "Cassandra wannabes will be right someday. History proves that. But they will be those Cassandra wannabes who are talking about external ...

The national debt can lead to higher inflation, higher interest rates, leave the country vulnerable to financial crises, and ...

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The average U.S. FICO® Score is 715, according to credit monitoring bureau Experian, where it's remained since 2023. FICO is ...

In his first opinion column for AL.com, Mo Brooks warns: "America is us. That means America’s debt is our individual debt - ...

Asked whether the U.S. debt problem could lead to a period of ... if you just look at history, you will see these things repeating over and over again," Dalio said. "We will be surprised by ...