The debt crisis is converging with four other forces simultaneously reaching a breaking point, Dalio warns.

More federal borrowing also comes with higher interest rates and inflationary pressure throughout the economy. It also ...

America does not look like a nation in fiscal distress—and that’s exactly the problem. The S&P 500 has more than doubled in the past five years. Unemployment is at a multi-decade low. Social Security ...

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality. America became a country of strangers, speaking ...

Federal debt held by the public now surpasses the total value of the nation's economic output. Here's why experts say that's ...

More Americans are falling behind on car payments as borrowing costs keep climbing.

The United States national debt has now grown beyond the size of the country’s GDP, punctuating a long-running trajectory ...

The U.S. national debt is on pace to break a record set after World War II in four years, while annual budget deficits are projected to balloon to $3 trillion a year a decade from now, according to a ...

Conservatives and libertarians talk rhapsodically about markets, while sometimes ignoring the market signals that reject their occasional alarmism. Which is why Montgomery College economics professor ...

The financial challenges facing this country are bigger than any one race, any one district or any one election cycle.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice ...