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Big Tech

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Economy

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Success

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President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on December 2, 2025.
Economy

Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt

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President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
Economy

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President Donald Trump listens as first lady Melania Trump speaks at a signing ceremony for the "Fostering the Future" executive order in the East Room of the White House on November 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Economy

National debt crisis will be averted by governments ‘mobilizing and encouraging’ private wealth to fill budget holes, says UBS

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Economy

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By Eva Roytburg and Nick Lichtenberg
November 25, 2025
Ray Dalio attends the Fortune Global Forum Riyadh 2025 on October 27, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Investing

Ray Dalio reveals the surprising ‘single most important reason’ he’s succeeded in investing—and it has nothing to do with finance

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November 25, 2025
Ray Dalio on stage with Fortune's Diane Brady at Fortune Global Forum this year.
Investing

I chatted to Ray Dalio’s AI doppelgänger: It claims there’s a 75% chance the AI bubble bursts in 2026, isn’t so worried about national debt—and wouldn’t say which stocks to avoid

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AI

More Big Tech company debt ‘would increase the macro risks associated with the AI build-out,’ Goldman Sachs warns

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November 20, 2025
Jerome Powell (R) speaks after being nominated for Chairman of the Federal Reserve by US President Donald Trump (L) in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017.
Economy

America’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank

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November 17, 2025
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department director of policy planning, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Haas testified before the committee on the topic of “From Sanctions to the Soleimani Strike to Escalation: Evaluating the Administration's Iran Policy."
Economy

Legendary DC diplomat feels ‘like Paul Revere’ about the $38 trillion national debt: ‘The crisis is coming!’

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November 13, 2025
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Personal Finance

Your political polarization is the reason for our $38 trillion national debt, top economist says: ‘it’s deeply debilitating’ for ‘consensus and stability and productive policy results’

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November 13, 2025
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Economy

‘We are guilty of spending our rainy-day fund in sunny weather’: Top economists, historians unite to urge action on $38 trillion national debt

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