US debt increasingly functions less like a conventional balance sheet liability and more like financial infrastructure. It is now more intermediated by systems rather than states.

Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies and the rise of autocracy over the past year prompted scientists to set the ...

CreditNinja reports that about 41% of working-age Americans (72 million) have medical debt, affecting lower-income and ...

The US government is borrowing more than ever before. New figures show that the total national debt continues to rise and has now reached astronomical proportions. Investors and policymakers are ...

When Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced Sunday evening he was under criminal investigation from the DOJ this week, the markets braced for a shock. The probe—centered on a $2.6 billion renovation of the ...

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Over 70% of the national debt is owed to domestic lenders, while the rest is owed to overseas lenders, led by Japan, China, and the United Kingdom. The raw number isn't the whole story; it's how it ...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has issued a stark warning about the potential risks posed by America’s rapidly increasing national debt. Yellen, speaking at a panel on the “Future of the ...

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A panel of economic luminaries said the long-run risk posed by mounting federal debt represented a paramount problem facing the US economy. Those risks include the scenario in which the size of the ...

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