In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, economists Vadim Elenev, Tim Landvoigt, an ...

Tariffs will bring in $300 billion to $400 billion a year, which would help to pay a fraction of the interest payments of more than $1 trillion in 2025.

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

Germany will increase federal debt sales by a fifth next year to a record €512 billion ($601 billion) to fund a spending ...

States and local governments across America have collectively accumulated over $6 trillion in liabilities, roughly $5 ...

Moody’s Downgraded the US… Should You Care? The S&P downgraded the US credit rating in 2011. Then, in 2023, Fitch followed suit. Finally, Moody's pulled the trigger on May 16, 2025. Their decision ...

The United States government faces a dire financial situation that has raised concerns about its long-term economic stability. To better understand the gravity of this issue, it’s helpful to break ...

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 ...

A council that was effectively declared bankrupt has said the government will never write off all of its debt. Thurrock Council in Essex racked up a debt of £1.5bn by borrowing hundreds of millions ...

MINNEAPOLIS — If you wince when look at your monthly credit card bill, you might not believe what the U.S. government has racked up. The national debt now tops more than $34 trillion. That's a new ...

Developed markets led a borrowing push that lifted global debt to near $346 trillion at the end of the third quarter, while a ...