National Debt

The federal deficit is on pace to post its first increase for a full fiscal year since 2011. (iStock photo)

Economy

Deficit rises to $514 billion through July

August 10, 2016 6:45 pm

How does the national debt compare to other countries, and how much do we owe to foreign governments? Who would do a better job at reducing the debt: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

8 crazy facts about the national debt

Jason Russell -

August 8, 2016 4:01 am

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said President Obama told him in 2013 that he doesn't want to talk publicly about the national debt in great detail because it would make people

Economy

Senator: Obama says talking about the debt makes people ‘scared’

Pete Kasperowicz -

August 3, 2016 1:13 pm

The U.S.'s debt is expected to exceed the country's entire annual economic output in less than 20 years. (AP Photo/Vik Jolly, File)

Columnists

GOP can ignore the debt, but it won’t ignore our children

Philip Klein -

July 18, 2016 4:01 am

News

National debt jumps nearly $100 billion in one day to record high

Pete Kasperowicz -

July 2, 2016 4:01 am

Economy

Senate advances Puerto Rico rescue bill

Susan Ferrechio -

June 29, 2016 2:54 pm

Lawmakers go before the House Rules Committee to prepare a bill for floor debate that would create a financial control board for Puerto Rico and restructure some of the U.S. territory's $70 billion debt, at the Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Op-Eds

Congress is partly to blame for Puerto Rico mess

Ken Buck -

June 13, 2016 4:04 am

The argument took place when Rep. Luis Gutierrez, left, told Rep. William Lacy Clay that the control board established by the House bill would cost $370 million. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

News

Gutierrez: Puerto Rico bill reveals double-standard for ‘brown people’

Joel Gehrke -

June 10, 2016 6:32 pm

Finance and Economy

Report: Deadbeat America drowning in credit card debt

Anna Giaritelli -

June 8, 2016 9:59 pm

Protesters express their opposition to the fact the the Federal Reserve bank bailed out Wall Street but not Puerto Rico outside International House in New York, where Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen appeared with former Federal Reserve chairs Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan. (AP Photo)

Magazine

Puerto Rico’s budget problems go back decades

Washington Examiner Staff -

May 23, 2016 4:01 am

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Tag: National Debt

Deficit rises to $514 billion through July

8 crazy facts about the national debt

Senator: Obama says talking about the debt makes people ‘scared’

GOP can ignore the debt, but it won’t ignore our children

National debt jumps nearly $100 billion in one day to record high

Senate advances Puerto Rico rescue bill

Congress is partly to blame for Puerto Rico mess

Gutierrez: Puerto Rico bill reveals double-standard for ‘brown people’

Report: Deadbeat America drowning in credit card debt

Puerto Rico’s budget problems go back decades

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