Two decades after a GOP vice president declared that deficits don’t matter, Trump and his party are going all out to test ...

One alarming issue is our ballooning national debt. The Bureau of the Treasury reported that, as of January 2025, the ...

This would lead the U.S. to a debt-to-GDP ratio of 200% by 2055, a figure few countries have reached outside of wartime or economic collapse contexts.

The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

The OBR is being far too optimistic in its assumptions about productivity growth in the UK – meaning the scale of the country ...

When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years.

The Republican budget will add trillions to the national debt. Trump should channel Eisenhower to keep things in check.

The U.S. national debt has hit a record $36.2 trillion, and is only expected to grow.

National debt as a percent of GDP Annual federal spending as a percent of GDP Both tell a story not just of fiscal responsibility, but of the federal government's growing reach into the economy.

Now that the budget bill has passed Congress, we can see clear projections for how it will impact deficits, government debt, and debt service expenses.