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Scott Bessent
EconomyNational debt hits a record $37 trillion, years sooner than pre-pandemic projections
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressAugust 12, 2025
Ray Dalio
FinanceRay Dalio issues his most dire warning to America yet: The ballooning $37 trillion debt will trigger an ‘economic heart attack’
By Nick LichtenbergJuly 24, 2025
Trump signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law: What that means for your money
Personal FinanceTrump signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law: What that means for your money
By Alicia AdamczykJuly 4, 2025
Trump speaks into a microphone and points into the crowd in front of an American flag
EconomyThe 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 PressJune 4, 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump
EconomyMusk 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
By Eleanor PringleJune 4, 2025
Jamie Dimon with Capitol building in background
PoliticsTreasury 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’
By Irina IvanovaJune 2, 2025
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase
EconomyJamie 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’
By Eleanor PringleJune 2, 2025
President Donald J. Trump greets Tesla CEO Elon Musk
EconomyElon Musk says he’s ‘disappointed’ in Trump’s new spending bill because it ‘undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing’
By Eleanor PringleMay 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump
FinanceTrump will get ‘punched in the face’ by markets if his spending bill passes without a plan for national debt and tariffs, says Wharton professor
By Eleanor PringleMay 27, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
EconomyU.S. economy will be growing faster than 3% this time next year, predicts Treasury’s Bessent 
By Christiaan HetznerMay 26, 2025
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans Tax Proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC
EconomyTrump’s ‘Robin Hood in reverse’ tax bill is driving up the cost of buying a home, Democrats say
By Christiaan HetznerMay 23, 2025
President Donald Trump answers reporters' questions after he posthumously awarded the new Medals of Sacrifice to fallen officers during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on May 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.
FinanceU.S. economy is experiencing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, says Deutsche Bank, as confidence in national debt management erodes
By Eleanor PringleMay 20, 2025
Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), at a general election campaign rally in Dresden, Germany, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Merz, whose CDU/CSU coalition is leading polls by double digits, upended the election campaign Wednesday by accepting votes from the nationalist Alternative for Germany to pass a hard-line migration resolution through parliament.
FinanceGermany topples giant ‘Zero’ monument symbolizing fiscal prudence as new government embraces debt
By Ryan HoggApril 11, 2025
Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc.
FinanceLarry Fink says Bitcoin could replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency because of national debt
By Eleanor PringleApril 1, 2025
Scott Bessent in front of a black background
FinanceAmerica could run out of cash to pay its bills as early as this summer
By Fatima Hussein, Kevin Freking and The Associated PressMarch 26, 2025
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