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EconomyAmerica’s national debt borrowing binge means interest payments will rocket to $2 trillion a year by 2036, CBO says
By Eleanor PringleFebruary 11, 2026
Economy‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit
By Tristan BoveFebruary 11, 2026
CommentaryAmerica is shorting one of its best assets as the $38 trillion national debt runs out of control
By Katica RoyFebruary 10, 2026
EconomyAmerica borrowed $43.5 billion a week in the first four months of the fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over $1 trillion for 2026
By Eleanor PringleFebruary 10, 2026
EconomyElon Musk warns the U.S. is ‘1,000% going to go bankrupt’ unless AI and robotics save the economy from crushing debt
By Jason MaFebruary 7, 2026
EconomyTrump boasts that tariffs are an American economic miracle. The real data tells a different story
By Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressFebruary 6, 2026
InvestingRay Dalio warns the world is ‘on the brink’ of a capital war of weaponizing money—and gold is the best way for people to protect themselves
By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 4, 2026
Economy‘Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government’: how the undocumented helped shrink the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades
By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 3, 2026
EconomyPresident Trump just missed a key legal deadline for his spending plans—stoking economists’ fears over the $38.5 trillion national debt
By Eleanor PringleFebruary 3, 2026
EconomyTrump thinks a weaker dollar is great, but the U.S. needs a stable currency as national debt heads toward $40 trillion, former Fed president says
By Jason MaJanuary 31, 2026
Economy$38 trillion national debt finds Democratic, Republican supermajority as watchdog sees ‘a major problem for America’s economic future’
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 29, 2026
PoliticsRay Dalio says the U.S. is a ‘tinderbox’ after the Minneapolis shooting and Trump risks a ‘more clear civil war’
By Jake AngeloJanuary 26, 2026
EconomyTrump’s own Big Beautiful Bill could add $5.5 trillion to the deficit and help sabotage his plan to ‘grow out’ of the national debt crisis
By Shawn TullyJanuary 26, 2026
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