Europe's major increase in defence spending is set to boost growth but beware of mitigating factors. Even with looser fiscal rules from Brussels, financing remains a challenge for countries with high ...

As the OECD graph above shows, the Spanish government did a very good job of reducing its national debt until 2007. As a member of the ... refused to follow the UK’s Bank of England and the US Federal ...

The IMF measures the debts of all levels of government as the national debt ... However, the graph above shows that the government has not produced a government surplus in any year during that period.

While most Americans know about the national debt, their level of understanding is remedial at best. Understanding there is a ...

You’ve probably heard about America’s rising national debt levels. Indeed, it’s been quite the hot topic over a number of years. While there are no quick and easy solutions, there is a slate of ...

Profligate spending by the federal government causes inflation and inhibits the economic freedom of Americans.

Elon Musk's DOGE efforts have saved roughly $100 billion. But that's nowhere near enough to bring fiscal sanity and stop the ...

Even if the government confiscated all the wealth of America’s billionaires, it would barely make a dent in the national debt. The only real solution is to both cut spending and increase taxes ...

Billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio is sounding the alarm on the growing U.S. national debt. While speaking at ...

On one side, you have cynics rolling their eyes and arguing that the truly consequential problem is not overpriced government boondoggles but rather entitlements like Medicare and Social Security and ...

US consumers dialed back the pace of borrowing in February after a near-record increase a month earlier. Total credit ...