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Donald Trump, sitting in the Roosevelt Room, looks forward and frowns.
EconomyFor the first time since Trump’s tariff rollout, import tax revenue has fallen, threatening his lofty plans to slash the $38 trillion national debt
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 12, 2025
The most likely solution to the U.S. debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity, former White House economic adviser says
EconomyThe most likely solution to the U.S. debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity, former White House economic adviser says
By Jason MaDecember 6, 2025
Schumer
Politics‘This is a bad idea made worse’: Senate Dems’ plan to fix Obamacare premiums adds nearly $300 billion to deficit, CRFB says
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 5, 2025
Ray Dalio attends the Fortune Global Forum Riyadh 2025 on October 27, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
EconomyRay Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway
By Eleanor PringleDecember 5, 2025
Hassett, Bessent
EconomyTariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 4, 2025
President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on December 2, 2025.
EconomyTwo months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt
By Eleanor PringleDecember 4, 2025
President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
EconomyTrump says national debt is ‘peanuts’ and his tariff income will pay everyone a $2,000 dividend too—but the math doesn’t add up
By Eleanor PringleDecember 3, 2025
Photo of Elon Musk
EconomyElon Musk says only AI and robotics can solve the ‘insanely high’ $38 trillion national debt crisis—but it would cause ‘significant deflation’
By Eleanor PringleDecember 1, 2025
President Donald Trump listens as first lady Melania Trump speaks at a signing ceremony for the "Fostering the Future" executive order in the East Room of the White House on November 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
EconomyNational debt crisis will be averted by governments ‘mobilizing and encouraging’ private wealth to fill budget holes, says UBS
By Eleanor PringleNovember 29, 2025
Jeffrey Gundlach
Economy‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach warns of the next financial crisis: ‘It has the same trappings as subprime mortgage repackaging in 2006’
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 18, 2025
Joe DioGuardi
CommentaryThe $38 trillion national debt ‘milestone’ and the accounting mirage
By Joe DioGuardiNovember 18, 2025
Donald Trump
EconomyOdds of President Trump paying out $2,000 tariff rebate checks now sit at just 2%
By Eleanor PringleNovember 18, 2025
Jerome Powell (R) speaks after being nominated for Chairman of the Federal Reserve by US President Donald Trump (L) in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017.
EconomyAmerica’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank
By Eleanor PringleNovember 17, 2025
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department director of policy planning, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Haas testified before the committee on the topic of “From Sanctions to the Soleimani Strike to Escalation: Evaluating the Administration's Iran Policy."
EconomyLegendary DC diplomat feels ‘like Paul Revere’ about the $38 trillion national debt: ‘The crisis is coming!’
By Eva RoytburgNovember 13, 2025
Jerome Powell
Economy‘We are guilty of spending our rainy-day fund in sunny weather’: Top economists, historians unite to urge action on $38 trillion national debt
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 13, 2025
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