Globally, government debt/GDP ratios and debt service costs have increased since the GFC and Covid, raising the relevance and importance of sovereign bond indices like the FTSE Debt Capacity World ...

The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year. The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country’s ...

At the end of Q4, US national debt reached $38.51 trillion, having soared by yet another $2.30 trillion over the 12 months in the calendar year 2025, or by 6.3%. In Q4 alone, the debt rose by $877 ...

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, who has written frequently about debt ...

Every few years, someone discovers that the United States government owes a very large amount of dollars and concludes that Rome is about to fall. A recent piece in RealClearMarkets by Nash, Thomas, ...