Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and other economists have sounded the alarm about the U.S.

Weakness among lower-income Americans could spread and "contaminate" other parts of the US economy, El-Erian warned.

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the ...

America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It ...

Last week, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject of intense national debate. Democrats and Republicans once ...

The national debt now stands at more than $38 trillion. The tariff revenue we rake in is just a drop in the bucket compared ...

American household debt reached a record $18.59 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, rising $197 billion, according to the ...

This is an opinion certainly shared by Lynn from Missouri, a 31-year-old hairstylist who, as Newsweek reports (3), told Caleb ...

Afghanistan's economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on ...

Mr Mukunda noted that that interest payments have risen to Shs7 trillion in FY2025, up from Shs3 trillion in 2019 ...

With the exchange rate weakening from Tk84 to over Tk123 per US dollar in four years, more local currency is now required to repay the same amount of foreign debt, further straining the budget.