More federal borrowing also comes with higher interest rates and inflationary pressure throughout the economy. It also ...

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Washington's borrowing binge is unsustainable long-term, but Treasuries remain a cornerstone of global portfolios.

Economist Desmond Lachman thinks corrective fiscal measures are needed from major economies to avoid a bond-market crisis.

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Washington quickly brushed off a startling milestone in a mounting problem. By Peter Coy For years, deficit hawks have been ...

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality. America became a country of strangers, speaking ...

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Mitch Daniels looks in the mirror through words written on a page. See his latest Washington Post op-ed, and his comment that ...

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The United States national debt has now grown beyond the size of the country’s GDP, punctuating a long-running trajectory ...

I have not been a debt hawk for most of my 30-year career; however, that has changed recently. Continued high deficit spending by the U.S. government combined with a compacting of U.S. Treasury bond ...