Discover how a national debt crisis affects global economies, disrupting trade, boosting inflation, and affecting currency values worldwide.

Older voters have always exerted disproportionate political influence, due to their exceptionally high turnout rates.

In late May, yields on U.S. Treasury bonds jumped to their highest level since 2023, after the House of Representatives passed sweeping tax cuts as part of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget.

Venezuela’s debt crisis is one of the largest unresolved sovereign defaults in the world, the legacy of years of economic ...

Global debt is exploding. Major economies are facing a severe debt crisis, with debt-to-GDP ratios at unprecedented levels. Japan leads with a government debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 230%, the highest ...

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

If current fiscal trends continue, the United States could face a reckoning far sooner than many policymakers admit. Some economists warn that within five years, when the federal debt may approach $50 ...

A $15T U.S. debt wall could trigger a liquidity crisis. Foreign demand for Treasuries is waning. Read here for more insights ...

In effect, Covid ended Japan’s yield-capping experiment, because it vaulted the world into a high-interest-rate equilibrium. If you persist in capping yields in such an environment, you risk your ...

Greece earlier on Monday paid off ahead of schedule debt worth 5.3 billion euros ($6.22 billion) that had been due after 2031, two government officials said.

We all have so much to worry about these days: international, national, local and familial. As my summer good deed, I’m going to take one off your plate: the national debt. You can ignore it. Did that ...