Browsing: national debt
An excellent new study from the non-partisan Brookings Institution provides an ultra-sobering view of the potential tax increase U.S. families…
America has its viral AI doomsday essay. Now it has a debt version. No Labels, the centrist political organization that…
Whether or not you agree with President Trump’s methods to drum up revenue to assist with the government’s balance of…
Anirudh Devgan has a theory about why smart people keep making the same mistakes. Every generation faces a new wave…
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…