The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the total has expanded rapidly since 2008.

The U.S. national debt has now surpassed the size of the U.S. economy, a historic threshold that hasn't been crossed since the conclusion of World War II. Data released by the Bureau of Economic ...

The challenge is that the U.S. has to pay interest on its debt, which is increasing yearly. The Congressional Budget Office ...

The US national debt has crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the first peacetime year since 1946, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)—a ...

Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis and Treasury Department; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios The United States has crossed a symbolic milestone: The national debt is now larger than its gross domestic product.

The United States holds $45 trillion in natural resources and trillions more in public land, infrastructure, and military assets, which collectively exceed the U.S.’s $40 trillion national debt. Japan ...

National debt now exceeds GDP, signaling higher borrowing costs, tighter financial conditions and a long stretch of elevated interest rates for households and investors.