Credit downgrade is symbolic blow to American prestige and should spur Washington to get its fiscal house in order ...

We are learning that our model of aid over the decades of global health expansion has made the impact of cuts exponentially ...

When Germany borrows from the international loan market, it is charged a modest interest rate of 0.8 percent per annum. The ...

When the Latin American debt crisis hit in the 1980s, it was sparked by oil price shocks and deteriorating trade terms, and then made worse by an over-reliance on foreign, US dollar-denominated debt.

These columns pointed to Moody’s warning as a reminder of the fact that America’s debt crisis is intertwined with a monetary crisis. Viewed through that lens, the surging national debt — $36.2 ...

Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cuts risk triggering a US debt reckoning, global investors have warned. The US president’s proposals to make a series of tax cuts permanent would add trillions of ...