America’s national debt crossed $38.5 trillion in the opening month of 2026, pushing past a level the Committee for a ...

Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...

In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...

US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole conference. “Until ...

The United States crossed a major fiscal threshold at the start of 2026 as the national debt climbed past $38.5 trillion, a ...

America’s national debt crossed $38.5 trillion in January 2026, exceeding levels once expected closer to 2030, as rising ...

The U.S. national debt surpassed another historic milestone as it topped $38 trillion for the first time this week, as the federal government continues to rack up debt at a record-setting pace. New ...

In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, economists Vadim Elenev, Tim Landvoigt, an ...

US debt in the hands of the public now stands at 99% of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that it will reach 107% of GDP by 2027. The projections of the ratio of debt to GDP show an ...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...