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The world’s $100 trillion fiscal timebomb keeps ticking
FinanceThe world’s $100 trillion fiscal timebomb keeps ticking
By Craig Stirling and BloombergOctober 19, 2024
Is gold safer than U.S. Treasury bonds as federal debt keeps soaring?
FinanceIs gold safer than U.S. Treasury bonds as federal debt keeps soaring?
By Jason MaOctober 19, 2024
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FinanceFed rate cuts were supposed to help ease U.S. debt costs, but it’s not looking good so far
By Jason MaOctober 13, 2024
Nassim Taleb speaks
Finance‘The Black Swan’ author is really afraid of what’s happening to the U.S. dollar
By Jason MaOctober 13, 2024
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FinanceU.S. debt is so massive, interest costs alone are now $3 billion a day
By Jason MaSeptember 7, 2024
US government check
FinanceU.S. debt interest costs are about to blow past $1 trillion this fiscal year
By Viktoria Dendrinou and BloombergAugust 12, 2024
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase
FinanceJamie Dimon says whoever is elected president can’t sit in denial and must realize ’we have a problem’ with national debt
By Eleanor PringleJuly 18, 2024
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FinanceLarry Fink says America’s $35 trillion national debt will be a ‘big burden on the backs of our children’ unless the private sector is given room to grow
By Eleanor PringleJuly 16, 2024
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FinanceU.S. debt could threaten the economic growth that’s needed to keep the burden sustainable, former IMF official says
By Jason MaJune 15, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stands at podium
FinanceJanet Yellen warns higher outlook for rates will make it harder to keep deficits and debt expenses under control
By Viktoria Dendrinou, Christopher Condon and BloombergMay 25, 2024
Skyline of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the financial center of the country.
FinanceDebt-hungry American companies are flocking to Europe as interest rate cuts fuel $33 billion ‘Reverse Yankee’ effect
By Ryan HoggMay 18, 2024
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson,
PoliticsAs U.S. debt soars past $34 trillion, Congress has killed off its plan to tackle the crisis
By Kevin Freking and The Associated PressMay 11, 2024
John Waldron, the president and COO of Goldman Sachs, believes the country’s lack of control over it’s debt could risk a Truss-style economic crisis, he said at Semafor’s World Economic Summit on April 18.
FinanceThe $34 trillion U.S. debt is nearly as big as the economy and there’s (still) no plan to fix it
By Sunny NagpaulMay 1, 2024
Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel Advisors LLC
FinanceKen Griffin says the U.S. is being ‘irresponsible’ with national debt, and politicians are spending ‘at the expense of future generations’
By Eleanor PringleApril 2, 2024
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
FinanceAmerica will be left with ‘severe, irreversible scars’ if national debt goes unchecked. Now, a blockbuster report warns the bill is higher than believed, hitting $141T by 2054
By Eleanor PringleApril 1, 2024
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The U.S. government is spending $88 billion a month in interest on national debt—equal to spending on defense and education combinedplaceholder alt text
By Fortune EditorsApril 9, 2026
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2 years ago, Saudi Arabia quietly canceled the ‘petrodollar’ deal with America that wired the world economy for 50 years. Then war broke out in Iranplaceholder alt text
By Fortune EditorsApril 7, 2026
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The U.S. had a national debt ‘home run’ in its grasp, says Jamie Dimon. But the government did nothing, and now its best option is crisis managementplaceholder alt text
By Fortune EditorsApril 8, 2026
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