The $29 trillion federal debt held by the public is becoming an increasingly local problem. Washington's fiscal challenges have led to increased borrowing costs as well as reduced federal aid to ...

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 ...

In a recent lecture titled “The Fiscal Future,” Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University laid out the following future scenarios as our federal debt explodes. The national government can ...

The national debt has grown to more than $37 trillion. There is mounting concern in some quarters over how soon the ballooning debt will impact the lives of everyday Americans. As Paul Solman explains ...

America’s love affair with new cars is colliding with a financial nightmare. According to a new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), total U.S. auto loan debt has ballooned to an ...

How Republicans harnessed the story Democrats didn’t — and won’t — embrace. By Elizabeth Warren and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger Senator Elizabeth Warren arrived on the political ...

With the Trump administration scaling back federal efforts to protect Americans from medical bills they can't pay, advocates for patients and consumers have shifted their work to contain the nation's ...

For many people living in the US, the Fourth of July is a day when it is traditional to barbecue and celebrate with friends and family. Today marks the signing of the document that laid the foundation ...