The federal government has added roughly one trillion dollars to the national ledger in less than three months, a pace that ...

American households are carrying a record debt load, with balances now approaching $18.6 trillion and high-interest plastic ...

Total household debt in the U.S. increased by $185 billion in the past three months, reaching a total of $18.39 trillion at the end of June, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank ...

There’s been a lot of talk in thefinancial newslately about the size of the U.S. debt and the fact that foreign countries hold a large amount of it. Some legislators and economists fear that the U.S.