President Donald Trump's unpopular tariffs have caused him to lose support on the economy and turn a winning campaign issue into a political liability.

President Donald Trump holds a chart at the White House Rose Garden ... Opinion: Can Musk rein in exorbitant national debt? America's economic future is at stake. Tariffs are taxes on consumers.

President Donald Trump holds a chart at the White House Rose Garden ... Opinion: Can Musk rein in exorbitant national debt? America's economic future is at stake. Tariffs are taxes on consumers.

Earlier this week, the country's lawmakers agreed to go on a 500 billion euro ($545.45 billion) borrowing spree, ditching self-imposed debt restraint ... A line chart of German 10-year bond ...

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Trump has the US on right path," by Nicole Russell Nicole Russell says the U.S. is on the right track. Voters wanted the ...

That task of starting to reduce deficits and try to bring down the national debt was made easier by the expanding Dutch economy. After a fall in 2008, the GDP of the Netherlands has grown consistently ...

The IMF measures the debts of all levels of government as the national debt ... However, the graph above shows that the government has not produced a government surplus in any year during that period.

Every few years, Congress discusses some form of spending limits. Usually, these go nowhere or are ignored or repealed a couple of years or so after passage. There is a similar rule for federal tax ...

The Congressional Budget Office's long-term budget outlook shows deficits widening in the years ahead, driven primarily by ...

The national debt is now $36 trillion, and the portion held by the public is about 100% of GDP. The ever-worsening debt outlook led Fitch to downgrade the US credit rating from AAA to AA+.