New guidance will bar states from removing medical debt from people’s credit reports.

With consumer debt at record levels, the United States is sleepwalking toward disaster.

The deficit, on the whole, is nearly $2 trillion.

Creditors are hunting down the White House press secretary.

You can now Venmo the government to try to reduce the massive national debt.

Scott Bessent had a wild explanation for why the budget bill won’t increase the national debt.

JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

Donald Trump is threatening Elon Musk as Musk tries to take down his budget bill.

Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.

Donald Trump just upended the loan repayment system.

Mike Johnson has just released House Republicans’ budget plan—and it’s not good.

Republicans, in the peak of cruelty, are turning the L.A. fires into a political bargaining chip.

Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.

He’s desperate for money, but we should be worried less about foreign autocrats than rich Americans.

Insurer Chubb has stepped in with a timely loan to help with some of the former president’s mounting legal fees. But he’s still nearly half a billion dollars short—and he says he hasn’t got it.

A bill being considered in Albany could fundamentally change the rules for private creditors—and stop them from milking poorer countries for money.

The former newspaper editor means well, but his defense of the journalistic practice is flawed.

Global hunger is rising amid war, inflation, and a pandemic—but it’s not because of a lack of food.

Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded.

Nancy Fraser talks about work, debt, and a breakdown of shared meaning.