"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for ...
"In the financialized U.S. economy, each dollar of deficit spending may flow into a dollar of corporate profit." ...
Spiraling interest payments—which grew from $352 billion in 2021 to $970 billion in 2025—put the debt train on an accelerated ...
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, ran the numbers exclusively for Fortune.
The sweeping legislation, which passed in July, renewed the 2017 tax cuts for individuals and granted additional tax breaks, ...
Central planning is bad, which means government spending is bad. Contra the most prominent number in economics (GDP), government spending is by its very name an economic wrecking ball. These truths ra ...
The Rules Committee must suggest rule changes to help meet the target, including making budget rules more difficult to waive ...
Use CRFB’s Adjusted August 2025 Baseline, which accounts for the projected impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), ...
The deepest markets in the world continue to tell us that paying off the $37 trillion national debt will be the easy part, but budget experts are arguably missing the message. Think the Cato Institute ...
At about the size of the entire U.S. economy, the national debt is on track to exceed its post-World War II record of 106% within the next three years. The 3% target would help to stabilize the debt ...