A looming fiscal reckoning could mean higher borrowing costs, taxes and everyday expenses. Financial planners share five ...

U.S. federal deficit hits $40 trillion as interest payments now exceed military spending, raising urgent questions about ...

Crisis? What crisis?” These words were attributed to Jim Callaghan in January 1979 when, as prime minister, he returned from a G5 summit in Guadeloupe.

Nearly 7% of credit card balances are sliding into serious delinquency. Here are six signs your debt is headed for a crisis ...

The Bridgewater Associates founder made the case on Friday. He puts a US debt crisis three years away, give or take two, unless Washington changes course. Most coverage led with his three-year clock.

Social Security is running out of money, which will force a reform.

Wall Street’s latest doom thesis says the Fed is trapped and a US debt trap is nearly here, but it never names a date, and ...

Heavy borrowing, increased spending and tax cuts by Democratic and Republican administrations have long raised concern.

If we divide that debt by the number of people in the U.S., we find that every man, woman, child and newborn baby in this ...

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio said the the debt buyback announcement this week fits into a larger pattern that could signal a looming debt crisis. Dalio recommended investors look to gold and bitcoin ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

US Debt Danger as the American economy in crisis or financial trouble due to spending with a fear of ballooning deficit in the United States economic situation as a huge risk to Washington. The ...