Amid heightened uncertainty, policymakers will need to deal with complex trade-offs between debt, slower growth, and new ...

Global public debt peaked in 2020 as governments borrowed heavily for COVID-19 relief. But it has been edging back up, and ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its long-term budget outlook and showed that budget deficits are on track to widen in the years ahead, pushing the national ...

The IMF said in its latest Fiscal Outlook, published on Wednesday, that a 117 per cent global debt-to-GDP ratio would be the highest since the aftermath of the second world war. The ratio hit an ...

The PIIGS countries (Portugal ... government debt. The US debt to GDP ratio was a mere 35% just before the 2008 crisis (based on debt held by the public; yes there are other ways to measure ...

The CBO's budget forecasts that the debt held by the public as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), a metric favored by economists for comparing debt to economic output, is projected to ...