High debt levels and potential fiscal dominance could lead to lower interest rates, benefiting assets like BTC and gold.
In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...
The modern equivalent isn’t literal coin shaving. But as 2026 starts with the U.S. staring down a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio, top ...
America’s national debt crossed $38.5 trillion in January 2026, exceeding levels once expected closer to 2030, as rising ...
Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...
The net federal debt is about 100% of annual GDP. A high debt-to-GDP ratio raises interest rates. It makes the United States hostage to the emotions of international investors. The Congressional ...
The United States crossed a major fiscal threshold at the start of 2026 as the national debt climbed past $38.5 trillion, a ...
The net interest on the U.S. Federal Debt is roughly 3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), amounting to $882 billion. What does this percentage and the absolute number mean? If they were to ...
America’s national debt crossed $38.5 trillion in the opening month of 2026, pushing past a level the Committee for a ...
The U.S. national debt surpassed another historic milestone as it topped $38 trillion for the first time this week, as the federal government continues to rack up debt at a record-setting pace. New ...
Governments sometimes get themselves into trouble with too much debt. Early economist Adam Smith devoted the last chapter of his famous Wealth of Nations (1776) to the topic of sovereign default. “The ...