Below is a chart of the ratios for countries worldwide (hover over the map to compare the U.S. to other nations). Understanding the national ... levels of debt can lead to higher interest rates ...

which graphs the outstanding national debt held by the public at the end of each year from 1963 to 2000. The large amount of publicly held U.S. Treasury debt shown in Chart A also has implications for ...

The Algorithm I recently wrote about a post by Josh Rauh, of the Hoover Institution, on the dangerously increasing share of our revenue going toward interest payments on the national debt.

Interest on the U.S. national debt topped $1 trillion for the first time during fiscal 2024, as the annual budget deficit reached its highest level except during the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures ...

As spending increases, the government has to borrow more money, resulting in a higher supply of Treasurys coming onto the market which end up lifting interest rates. US national debt hit an all ...

At its current trajectory, the rising national debt—and the increasing burden of making interest payments on it—will reduce Americans' future income growth by 12 percent over the next 30 years ...

Next year, interest payments alone on our debt will top $1 trillion according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s fiscal watchdog, defines national ...

Historian Niall Ferguson recently invoked what he calls his own personal law of history: “Any great power that spends more on debt service (interest payments on the national debt) than on ...

A couple of weeks ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argued in the New York Times that you should not be too worried about the national debt given the vast scope of the national and ...