federal debt

Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers on Friday night, dropping the rating to AA+ on concerns about rising federal debt.

Investors are seeking alternatives to United States Treasury bonds as worries escalate that lawmakers will fail to rein in the deficit and raise the federal debt limit in the coming days.

April 20 -- Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University and a Bloomberg columnist, talks about the U.S. budget deficit and federal debt, and the likelihood of a 'bond market crash' as a result.

With the federal deficit soaring, annual interest payments on debt will reach $916 billion by the end of the decade.

Although everyone can see the train wreck coming, lawmakers seem powerless to stop it.

The Associated Press 1 comment Graphic shows federal debt held by public as percentage of GDP What is $1.42 trillion?

It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada's, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Federal debt is rising faster than it has since World War II, but it isn’t crowding the private sector; it’s supplanting it.