The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget and economic outlook includes a troubling projection for net inte ...

This higher debt would also further explode interest payments. Already, interest costs have exceeded spending on Medicare and ...

TV news, I heard about President Trump signing the “stimulus” bill. His desire for $2,000 per American was reported, but much of what the TV news media had to say about him ...

The country risks an economic "heart attack" if lawmakers are unable to reel in the national debt, warns one hedge fund ...

Fiscal hawks warn that deficits produce higher inflation rates and higher interest rates that harm the poor the most.

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

A newly introduced bipartisan bill in Congress would require the U.S. Congressional Budget Office to include the cost of interest payments when calculating the cost of ...

Rising deficits and interest costs impede economic growth and undermine global trust in the dollar.

Broad-based increases in tariff barriers to reduce the trade deficit will be ineffectual, counterproductive and ultimately ...

During the Obama administration, especially during the period when Republicans controlled the House, there were several confrontations during which the debt ceiling was used as a political weapon ...