The national debt has increased under most U.S. presidents. Here is how much each president's time in office added to the U.S ...

U.S. national debt is now larger than its economic output, and Washington is showing no signs of slowing down on spending. As ...

The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the ...

The U.S. national debt has now surpassed the size of the U.S. economy, a historic threshold that hasn't been crossed since the conclusion of World War II. Data released by the Bureau of Economic ...

For a long time, pundits talked about the rising debt threat, but markets didn’t much care. More recently, we’ve seen ...

The US national debt has crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the first peacetime year since 1946, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)—a ...

Total Household Debt: As of Q1 2026, total consumer debt is $18.8 trillion, with an average household debt of $105,444.

The government hit the debt ceiling back in January which blocked any net new debt from being created from January to June. The blended interest rate has stabilized around 3.1%. More concerning is the ...

National debt now exceeds GDP, signaling higher borrowing costs, tighter financial conditions and a long stretch of elevated interest rates for households and investors.