In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the US government can have outstanding. Read ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by Congress to be a watchdog over the financial industry. Now it’s been ...

Jordanian King Abdullah’s meeting with Donald Trump Tuesday was one of the most consequential of his 25-year reign. His ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Fitch has become the second top rating agency to warn that the prized triple-A credit scores of the World ...

The country risks an economic "heart attack" if lawmakers are unable to reel in the national debt, warns one hedge fund ...

Sovereigns who borrow private capital are making a bet that the economic returns to scale will be sufficient to raise living ...

Denmark’s National Bank comes up with a much lower figure when it calculates national debt. It only counts the debt of the central ... borrowing used by just about every government in the world. These ...

The three main credit rating agencies in the world each give assessments of the creditworthiness ... it has given the responsibility for the day-to-day management of the national debt to the country’s ...

The single mother from south suburban Calumet City found her credit score dragged down by thousands of dollars in medical debt from treating ... but also to the Old World butcher shop traditions ...

In terms of assets, Bank of America is the second-largest bank in the world and the sixth-largest bank in the world. With $288.96 billion in market cap, Bank of America is one of the most valuable ...

A metaphor for the dangers facing humanity, the clock is updated based on perceptions about how close humans are to destroying the world - with midnight symbolising that point. The countdown is ...