Trump's debt diet is working, and we are seeing the positive impacts on the federal budget deficit. The debt is shrinking.

Zooming out and looking over the history of the budget back to 2016 shows a more complete picture. The change since Covid is ...

The national debt now stands at more than $38 trillion. The tariff revenue we rake in is just a drop in the bucket compared to that amount. The Trump administration has proposed using tariff revenue ...

The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year. The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country’s ...

Mr. Bernstein was the chair of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2023 to 2025. Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our ...

The United States' national debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by the White House ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on February 1st. The country is gradually becoming engrossed in budget discussions. Graphs are flashing across TV screens, and experts are ...

For investors who listened to Dalio’s predictions of a coming “depression” a decade ago, they missed participating in one of the most significant bull markets in U.S. history. Not all debt is created ...