We are not going to “grow our way out” of this crisis, no matter what Scott Bessent says. And we’re not going to cut our way out of it, either.

Scott Bessent thinks it’s A-OK that the national debt is ballooning.

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

Scott Bessent flailed when asked about the bill’s effect on the deficit.

Representative Thomas Massie warned his party that their bill is an absolute disaster.

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

The markets haven’t freaked out about the president’s weird contention that he might renege on a portion of the national debt yet. But if he keeps talking about it—watch out.

The truth is, we already sort of have one: It’s called the national debt.

The Utah Republican’s analysis of the problem with American politics is fundamentally flawed.

Republicans are pretending to be the party of fiscal responsibility again.

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream

Liberals have dismissed the former Starbucks CEO's potential White House bid. They should start taking it seriously.

A failed 2020 bid by the former Starbucks CEO would prove that Americans aren't clamoring for a centrist businessman as president.

How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.

The magical thinking of the deficit-obsessed