The country risks an economic "heart attack" if lawmakers are unable to reel in the national debt, warns one hedge fund ...

If healthcare entities believe that people won't pay their medical bills at the margin, they'll likely raise prices.

The national debt, currently at $36.3 trillion and growing, is a boulder weighing on economic prosperity. The money lent to ...

Why not use the looming fiscal crisis of the states to tackle the buck-passing by seriously reforming which tier of government is responsible for spending?

Republicans and fiscal conservatives (RAFCs) regularly, routinely, repeatedly — and sometimes recklessly — call for balancing ...

Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

Poland supports the idea of creating a "rearmament" bank to help Europe pay for the huge defence investment it needs as ...

The national debt is over $36 trillion ... deficits have repeatedly been over or just under $2 trillion. “The United States ...

More than 20 states in the U.S. already have their versions of a sovereign wealth fund, Alaska's being the largest.

It was President Ronald Reagan who famously said, “as government expands, liberty contracts.” Like with so many other things, ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South.

In this edition of the Hot Seat, Mike Murphy from the Committee for Responsible Budget Policy addresses the $36 trillion ...