The U.S. now owes over $38 trillion, about $114,000 per citizen. Debt jumped $1 trillion in two months. Rising deficits and soaring interest costs are fueling concerns. The dollars reserve status may ...

Credit card debt in the U.S. is $1.23 trillion dollars at the end of Q3 2025, according to the most recent data available ...

US debt crisis is reaching historic levels — and for the first time in a century, America’s debt burden is on track to surpass Italy and Greece, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The ...

In April 2025, Freedom Debt Relief reviewed data from tens of thousands of people actively looking for help with their debt. The numbers might be surprising. About one in four has at least one account ...

With the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill pushing America's debt-to-GDP ratio further into dangerous territory, a sudden political pivot towards fiscal discipline seems unlikely. Policy-makers ...

If America was a family or a business, its present debt situation would be considered a crisis. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the current national debt held by the public is $29 ...

In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25 percent of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Today, that figure is a ...

Elon Musk's U.S. debt concerns are exaggerated; the current debt situation isn't unprecedented or immediately catastrophic for the economy. Neither major political party is willing to meaningfully ...

The Big Beautiful Bill, regardless of its wisdom as public policy, exposes the reality that everyone has a hand in the cookie jar called the national debt. My hand in the cookie jar came with heart ...