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The US Treasury Department in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, May 31, 2024.
Economy

The canary in the coal mine is singing as global bond selloff raises national debt concerns

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September 3, 2025
Ray Dalio speaks onstage during the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2025 in New York City.
Economy

Ray Dalio says America’s ‘debt-induced heart attack’ will happen under Trump 2.0—and no one’s brave enough to stop it

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September 2, 2025
President Donald Trump
Economy

Trump is bringing in enough revenue from tariffs to cut deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade, CBO says

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August 25, 2025
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Banking

Trump may want lower interest rates for consumers, but it sure is convenient for the national debt he’s creating, too

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August 20, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump
Economy

Trump says tariffs are going to be enough to pay down national debt. They likely won’t even touch the sides

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August 17, 2025
US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.
Economy

In Trump’s year of cost-cutting and efficiency, national debt soars past $37 trillion

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August 13, 2025
Scott Bessent
Economy

National debt hits a record $37 trillion, years sooner than pre-pandemic projections

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
August 12, 2025
Ray Dalio
Finance

Ray Dalio issues his most dire warning to America yet: The ballooning $37 trillion debt will trigger an ‘economic heart attack’

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July 24, 2025
Trump signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law: What that means for your money
Personal Finance

Trump signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law: What that means for your money

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July 4, 2025
Trump speaks into a microphone and points into the crowd in front of an American flag
Economy

The Budget Office says Trump’s spending bill would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt—just one day after Elon Musk slammed Congress over this same fear

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
June 4, 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump
Economy

Musk is on a national debt crusade after slamming Trump’s spending bill: Dimon, Powell, Dalio, and Buffett have all echoed the Tesla CEO’s concerns

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June 4, 2025
Jamie Dimon with Capitol building in background
Politics

Treasury head Scott Bessent says Jamie Dimon should relax about the bond markets: ‘For his entire career he’s made predictions…none of them have come true’

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June 2, 2025
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase
Economy

Jamie Dimon is more worried about America’s ‘enemy within’ than China: ‘We have to get our act together and we have to do it very quickly’

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June 2, 2025
President Donald J. Trump greets Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Economy

Elon Musk says he’s ‘disappointed’ in Trump’s new spending bill because it ‘undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing’

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May 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump
Finance

Trump will get ‘punched in the face’ by markets if his spending bill passes without a plan for national debt and tariffs, says Wharton professor

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May 27, 2025

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