Fitch upgrades Portugal’s outlook to ‘Positive’ while affirming its ‘A’ rating, citing falling debt, fiscal discipline ...

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

"It's not a Ponzi scheme," Penn Wharton's Kent Smetters explained to Fortune. "It's a shell game." ...

In 2024, for the first time in almost a century, the United States spent more financing its national debt than it did, as a percentage of GDP, on national defense.

Wherever you look in American politics right now, you'll find legislators saying the government still doesn't tax ...

The Supreme Court slapped down Trump's tariffs, but advisors and investors are not done contending with the battle between the two governmental branches.

Several key programs are projected to run out of money, including Social Security and Medicare. The interest on the national debt will soon be the largest budget item.

America is drowning in debt. It has expanded over years and even decades, but President Trump and his allies in Congress have piled on a giant new load. In fiscal year 2025, the United States spent ...

One finance experts likens U.S. debt to a bad boyfriend that investors would shed, but they just have no better options. The allure of holding U.S. government debt is fading but investors have not ...

Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking ...

The proposal echoes one put forward by Mitt Romney when he was in the Senate. Curtis told the Deseret News it would seek to fill gaps that have been historically missing from Congress.

Wherever you look in American politics right now, you’ll find legislators saying the government still doesn’t tax enough — especially when it comes to the wealthy. California progressives are pursuing ...