Under CBO’s latest projections, the interest rate will exceed the growth rate (R>G) starting in 2031, when both are projected to total about 3.8% on a nominal basis and 1.8% on a real basis. Over time ...
Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so routinely and confidently ...
The United States national debt has reached a precarious milestone, hitting 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and placing the nation on a trajectory that could trigger six distinct types of fiscal ...
America's debt pile has grown so large that it now shapes every conversation about interest rates, markets and long‑term growth. To understand whether that trajectory ends in a full‑blown crisis, I ...
Cash is an underappreciated asset, especially as high valuations, margin debt, and consumer debt signal a potential market top. Record consumer debt, declining sentiment, and a weakening job market ...
The Trump administration provides new issues daily for elected officials, policy experts, journalists, and economists to argue about. Under this constant barrage, the ever-present elephant in the room ...
Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults have student loan debt. To put these numbers in context, the estimated ...