Politics and debt don’t mix well. Americans would be wise to look across the Atlantic to see how tough things can get.

In a wide-ranging conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience, Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered a ...

The government could "tolerate stronger growth and higher inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall and the debt burden ...

In contrast, a high national debt simply reflects that the government has issued a lot of currency that the public and ...

JPMorgan thinks America’s way out of its debt mess may run through higher inflation, weaker Fed independence, and a lot more ...

In a recent lecture titled “The Fiscal Future,” Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University laid out the following future scenarios as our federal debt explodes. The national government can ...

Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults ...

Could a $1 trillion platinum coin be the solution to the U.S. government's debt limit crisis? With politicians at a standoff, some senators and other proponents, at the last minute, have renewed talk ...

There is no collapse. No Lehman Brothers moment. Instead it’s a slow burn, a financial treadmill that many are never able to get off. Across the country, households are juggling a web of obligations: ...