"It probably would cause significant deflation." Elon Musk makes bold claim about future of US debt crisis: 'Pretty much the ...

A $15T U.S. debt wall could trigger a liquidity crisis. Foreign demand for Treasuries is waning. Read here for more insights ...

While headlines focus on inflation, market instability, and job growth, another crisis has been quietly unfolding: student loan debt. As of April 2025, roughly 5.8 million federal student loan ...

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Okay, I was tempted to sneak “Kardashians” into this week’s email subject line to perk up interest. I know, I know. Debt. But let me explain why I think it’s an important issue, particularly as talk ...

The Economics Studies program of the Brookings Institution has published a study on how mounting US federal debt, now at $36 trillion, could spark a devastating financial crisis in the US and globally ...

The fall of the French government on Monday because of its failure to get through parliament an austerity program to deal with rising government debt is a very sharp political expression of the ...