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On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein reacted to the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by Fitch and its concerns about government deficits and debt by stating that

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel that took place on Monday and was aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Special Report,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump responded to the amount added to the

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Assistant Minority Leader Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that while President Joe Biden “has increased a lot of spending” “We didn’t run up the debt” because they paid for things like the

The Zambian government passed a law on April 17 that allows citizens to cash out up to 20% of their pensions early. The resulting hit to government finances as claimants raced to pull some $300 million out of the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) is threatening to topple Zambia’s finances, and endangering a debt relief deal it has been working on since 2020.

The Education Department is “preparing to restart” federal student loan debt payments after a three-year pause during the pandemic.

A report revealed 62 percent of United States adults live paycheck to paycheck.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he does think expanding the child tax credit worked, there isn’t the political will for it because, in addition to a general distrust of government programs that

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that he believes the debt-to-GDP

Debt is expected to be 118 percent of GDP by 2033.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s approach to the debt ceiling is “most reasonable” and argued that spending reductions of 5-10% across the board should be

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein stated that we have a large national debt because there’s “a real reluctance to raise the revenues we need to meet our spending

On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Now Tonight,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein argued that America’s government debt doesn’t weaken the country. Host Jake Ward asked, “For those of us at home, the idea of having debt

The defunct government of now-former Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó owes $20.7 million to a group of U.S. law firms that handled litigation on its behalf, according to a report published by Reuters on Friday.

Most likely voters are concerned about the U.S. national debt, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found. 

The “American people don’t want” the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and the process of its release was an “abomination,” according to Sen. Rand Paul

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) stated that the omnibus bill is an example of the “unholy alliance” where Republicans agree to increases in domestic spending for boosted defense spending and argued that

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on

China’s looming real estate crisis loomed even higher this week, as property investment slumped, new construction suffered its worst slowdown in a decade, and foreign analysts noted the cash flows of property developers have largely dried up.

The mortgage debt rose 1.9 percent this past quarter as the housing market continues to soar coming out of the pandemic.

Prices are rising faster than wages, forcing households to increasingly turn to credit cards.

Kenyan presidential hopeful William Ruto promised on Wednesday that if elected, he will make all Kenyan government contracts with China public, and move aggressively to deport Chinese nationals working illegally in Kenya.

The British government has insisted it has no idea how much debt it owes to foreign states, including effectively hostile powers such as Russia and Communist China. 

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held a fiscal strategy meeting at a university near Seoul on Thursday. Yoon said it was time to “wake up from the fantasy of fiscal universalism” and realize that unlimited government spending is not the way to nourish a healthy economy.

The Biden White House announced on Monday that Russia defaulted on its international bonds for the first time in over a century, ostensibly because the pressure of international sanctions is crushing the Russian government financially.

While the Chinese government insists its economy is recovering swiftly from the latest round of coronavirus lockdowns, foreign analysts on Monday pointed to more signs of serious distress, including a trillion-dollar funding shortfall, banks freezing up, and regulators pointing fingers of blame at each other.

The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has analyzed the cost of cancelling student loan debt after Joe Biden indicated he is open to the idea. It called the plan “inflationary” and bad policy.

According to a report published by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai this weekend, the world’s poorest nations will pay China almost $14 billion in 2022 to service their debts. 

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday told reporters he will run for the Republican Senate leadership position again after the 2022 midterms.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday asked Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to restructure payments for the roughly $5 billion Sri Lanka borrowed from China to build wasteful and unproductive projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Critics describe BRI as a form of colonialism, a “debt trap” set by imperialist China for Third World countries, and Sri Lanka often serves as Exhibit A for the prosecution.

The UK government has continued its spending and borrowing spree, with the state borrowing £136 billion over the fiscal year to November.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said in a statement Monday that Republicans should oppose any funding bill that fails to address President Joe Biden’s crises, such as inflation, open borders, and the soaring debt.

Rep. Tom Tiffany grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on basing federal loan forgiveness on race.

The impending collapse of China’s gigantic Evergrande Group real estate company caused a tumble at the stock market on Tuesday for other Chinese property developers. Even investors in completely unrelated markets are growing nervous about what the implosion of such a huge company could do to banks in China and around the world – and what it could mean for Beijing’s geopolitical agenda.

Analysts from the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI), a Johns Hopkins University project to study China’s political and economic influence among African nations, said on Tuesday the African nation of Zambia owes $6.6 billion to China – more than double the amount claimed by former President Edgar Lungu. 

President Joe Biden has continued pushing a new White House talking point that claimed his $3.5 trillion spending agenda actually cost “zero dollars.”