America's debt problem is no longer an abstract worry about future generations. With the national balance now around $38 ...

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...

If America was a family or a business, its present debt situation would be considered a crisis. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the current national debt held by the public is $29 ...

The typical American now carries more debt than at any point in history, and the totals keep climbing even as interest rates ...

In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25 percent of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Today, that figure is a ...

The Big Beautiful Bill, regardless of its wisdom as public policy, exposes the reality that everyone has a hand in the cookie jar called the national debt. My hand in the cookie jar came with heart ...

Explore what short/current long-term debt is, how it’s reported on balance sheets, and its impact on financial health.