Cue the laugh track, because Bessent’s growth fantasy is a joke when viewed through the lens of history and facts.

When President Donald Trump first broached the idea in February, it sounded like a characteristically bold and worthwhile ...

A person walks past the National Debt Clock, April 7, in New York. The tax package containing President Donald Trump's top priorities would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt, according to new ...

US debt surpasses $37 trillion while Bitcoin and stablecoins offer potential solutions to economic instability and national debt reduction.

The “clock” ticks real-time government data showing the ever-growing national debt — $36.9 trillion as of this writing — the most owed by any country or empire in human history.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced on Monday he will reprogram his debt clock badge to display milliseconds elapsed since ...

A 2018 investigation by BNP’s Investors’ Corner estimated that China’s local government debt represented a figure over 50% of the country’s GDP.. Other reports by domestic news outlets within China ...

Fiat systems are flexible, sure. They let governments react to crises. But that flexibility comes at a cost — inflation, ...

The OECD counts “public debt” as the national debt, although it also refers to it as “general government debt”. This includes some organizations that are in the public sector, but not part of the ...

Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains the ballooning national debt, how we got here and what it means for our economy ... the debt clock that's been in Manhattan since 1989 said our ...