Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is on a mission to protect consumers from illegal medical debt collection practices. It issued advisories in October identifying illegal practices and ...

The United States will soon break a record that has stood for 78 years. Because the record has to do with federal debt, however, this is not a cause for celebration. If present trends continue, the ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent report, at a time of cyclical strength and very low unemployment, the US is running a budget deficit of seven percent of GDP while its public ...

Most Americans carry debt, and that includes the high-interest that comes with credit cards. Total credit card balances rose 5.8% from a year ago, to $1.14 trillion, according to a recent Federal ...

The high and rising level of US government debt risks driving up borrowing costs around the world and undermining global financial stability, the International Monetary Fund has warned. The IMF said ...

For investors who listened to Dalio’s predictions of a coming “depression” a decade ago, they missed participating in one of the most significant bull markets in U.S. history. Not all debt is created ...

Behind every on-screen loan shark is an even harder character making sure the mob’s debts are paid—make Peter pay, or Paulie might break your legs. The financial system is less violent, but similarly ...

Generation Z are entering adulthood with more financial burdens than any previous generation, according to a new survey. A poll by Talker Research for Newsweek revealed that Gen Z—born ...

The national debt has grown to more than $37 trillion. There is mounting concern in some quarters over how soon the ballooning debt will impact the lives of everyday Americans. As Paul Solman explains ...

President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US government closing in on breaching its legal borrowing limit following a White House meeting Thursday. The ...