The recent downgrade by the rating agency Moody’s of America’s AAA rating has passed by largely unnoticed among the plethora ...

Donald Trump wants to bring offshore factories and jobs back to the US. But globalisation also created loopholes in ...

At a Rotary Club gathering in Watertown, South Dakota, last year, Senator John Thune didn’t hold back. The national debt, he ...

The legislation that Republicans are trying to push through Congress could swell the very fiscal imbalance that party leaders ...

As part of a broader effort at deregulating the banking sector, U.S. policymakers are musing about easing leverage rules — a ...

The U.S. national debt is a mix of government bonds that trade daily and non-marketable securities that sit exclusively on ...

The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last month what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now it’s time for America to ...

Markets now price in the risk of the US government defaulting on its debts. The risk is small, but it should be zero.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's ability to steer the economy through interest rate adjustments depends on market confidence. If rates are rising due to runaway debt, the Fed may find itself forced to raise ...

Technical charts for gold point to a multiyear rally reaching almost $7,000 an ounce. - MarketWatch photo ...

Treasury bonds have been the safest investment around. Fiscal-policy-driven volatility could be changing that.