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National Debt Reaches a Scary Milestone
<p>As government deficit spending diminishes economic growth, it pushes the nation's economic output, the GDP, well below its potential.</p>…
Interest on the national debt is eating a record 19% of federal revenue — and watchdog warns it will get worse
The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest point since before the Great Recession. A leading fiscal watchdog warns the timing could not be worse.…
Time to freak out about the national debt
The longstanding bill is coming due.…
I Now Believe Our National Debt Is a Problem
If you’re not worried about this country’s fiscal outlook, you’re not paying attention.…
Two Debts, One Nation
On Memorial Day, Americans honor those who paid in blood while ignoring the crushing financial burden being passed to future generations.…
No, the Treasury Market Didn't Just Discover the National Debt
The markets are never a snapshot of the present. They’re a look ahead. It’s worth keeping in mind as commentators try to make sense of rising Treasury yields. Take the Washington P…
America’s fiscal fire will not put itself out
The country still has time to change course, but only if voters and leaders accept that overspending, not prosperity, built the current crisis.…
US national debt hits $39T, rising $5B daily since October
US national debt surpasses $39 trillion, growing $5B daily. Debt per person hits $114K as interest costs exceed Medicare and Medicaid spending combined.…
U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
According to Treasury data, updated retrospectively for May 18, the debt landed at $39,008,999,901,378.68.…
The abandoned goal of revenue neutrality
Tax policy is hard work. But the work becomes harder when tax reform is done in a vacuum, when what ultimately gets signed into law narrowly focuses on the next election cycle rath…
No Debt Denialism, Mitch Daniels, Just a Focus On Markets
Mitch Daniels looks in the mirror through words written on a page. See his latest Washington Post op-ed, and his comment that “No impulse is more human than wishfulness, the tenden…
Include Fannie and Freddie In National Debt
Fannie and Freddie are part of the government and need to be included in its consolidated financial statements.…
The $39 trillion national debt just got its own version of the viral Doomsday essay
Centrist political group No Labels is using science fiction to sound the alarm: "Neither party has any credibility on the debt or deficit right now."…
Trump’s ‘gold card’ visas were supposed to solve the $39 trillion national debt. They’ve only sold one
Gold card revenue “may be earmarked for deficit reduction, but it actually could be more money than that,” Trump previously told reporters.…