Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you add now could slow down economic growth in the future.

The US national debt is now as large as the combined gross domestic product (GDP) of the second to the sixth-largest ...

Globally, government debt/GDP ratios and debt service costs have increased since the GFC and Covid, raising the relevance and importance of sovereign bond indices like the FTSE Debt Capacity World ...

Consumers splurged on goods in particular, but also on services, and they accounted for 69% of GDP and moved the GDP needle. The trade deficit worsened further, driven by rampant consumer spending and ...

The U.S. government's budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for ...

Empirical research has found that at moderate levels debt can improve growth, but at high levels (thresholds somewhere between 75% and 100%) it can become damaging (if the high ratio isn’t addressed ...

As Americans' political focus turns towards this fall's elections, the winner of the presidential race will be confronted with a national debt that's on pace to reach a record-setting level in the ...

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your ...

The reconciliation package taking shape in the House will add at least $3.3 trillion to the debt through 2034, according to a new analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). And ...