US debt now exceeds the economy, and rising interest costs are adding pressure, raising questions about how sustainable our ...

The U.S. has crossed a threshold that is hard to ignore: the national debt is now larger than the entire economy. As of the ...

President Donald Trump defended the escalating national debt, comparing it to real estate leveraging. He also proposed that ...

The national debt exceeded 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last month, based on new economic data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

The milestone marks a symbolic and economic threshold, with federal debt now roughly twice its historical average relative to the size of the economy. Outside of a brief distortion early in the ...

Federal debt held by the public now surpasses the total value of the nation's economic output. Here's why experts say that's ...

The U.S. national debt has now surpassed the size of the U.S. economy, a historic threshold that hasn't been crossed since the conclusion of World War II. Data released by the Bureau of Economic ...

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