Politics and debt don’t mix well. Americans would be wise to look across the Atlantic to see how tough things can get.

Elon Musk claims AI and robotics are the only solution to America's $38 trillion debt crisis, predicting dramatic economic ...

Elon Musk says AI and robotics will solve the US debt crisis within three years by driving productivity beyond inflation.

Ray Dalio is not known for gentle language, and his latest warnings about American finances are some of his starkest yet. He ...

In contrast, a high national debt simply reflects that the government has issued a lot of currency that the public and foreign investors choose to hold as wealth. In other words, one country’s “debt” ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Musk said that because AI and robotics could lead to a significant increase in output, it would likely lead to deflation – which is the opposite of inflation and results in a decrease in the price ...

In a recent lecture titled “The Fiscal Future,” Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University laid out the following future scenarios as our federal debt explodes. The national government can ...

Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults ...

While optimistic economists argue that America can grow its way out of a debt crisis, pessimists believe the real outcome will be somewhat less popular. Business leaders, policymakers, and investors ...

There is no collapse. No Lehman Brothers moment. Instead it’s a slow burn, a financial treadmill that many are never able to get off. Across the country, households are juggling a web of obligations: ...