Browsing: national debt
Dr Phillip Swagel is an optimist, both by nature and when he looks at the U.S. economy.This fact is perhaps…
Soaring U.S. debt is causing Treasury bonds to lose their risk advantage over other securities, making it more expensive to…
German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant argued in his 1795 essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, that nations should conduct themselves…
America’s $39 trillion national debt has become a familiar political football—batted around in budget negotiations, invoked at congressional hearings, and…
Following the 2003 Iraq war, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the U.S. had spent $500 billion in direct costs…
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has a ticker on its website: The Retirement Trust Fund Countdown. At…
The Congressional Budget Office’s latest monthly budget says the U.S. government operated at a deficit of $1.17 trillion for the…
The problem with an increasing debt burden is that it costs more to maintain it: This is precisely the issue…
What this borrowing (and its related interest payments) will ultimately mean for the economy remains to be seen: Theories range…
President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget is built on a single, load-bearing bet: that the U.S. economy can grow at…