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

The US debt ceiling was reinstated ... to court Democrats or acquiesce to harder-line conservative demands. A chart comparing the general government debt for several countries ...

In the post, the user shares a graph to show the US’ outstanding debt and said: “The United States has a severe spending problem. Current national debt is now at $36 trillion and growing.

America’s national debt would have horrified Ronald Reagan. When he inherited a nation on the cusp of an unnerving milestone of $1 trillion in debt in 1981, he described it as a problem that had grown ...