2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (924+ words) Social Security faces a funding gap by 2032, with Trump's tax law adding to the strain. Social Security has been on a well-documented path toward a funding shortfall for years, but the policies enacted and proposed during the Trump administration have…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (800+ words) How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt — and counting fortune.com How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt, and counting The United States’ national debt crossed $40 trillion last month. Five months earlier, in March, the more…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (444+ words) Center for State Competitiveness by Andrew Wilford September 09, 2026 Last month, the national debt hit $40 trillion. For such a monumentally dubious achievement, it received relatively little attention. It’s not that hard to understand why—while it took us 192 years to accumulate…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (642+ words) The recent news that our national debt has swollen to $40 trillion should be the “bucket of ice water” America needs to finally address our financial woes. Our nation is on an unsustainable borrowing trajectory, and it is getting much worse....

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (145+ words) Re “The US national debt now stands at $40 trillion” (Aug. 19): Thank you for the article on our quickly increasing national debt. If we divide that debt by the number of people in the U.S., we find that every man,…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (129+ words) If long-term interest rates decisively breach the 5% threshold, the impact can derail the AI boom [WASHINGTON] Doomsday warnings about America’s rising debt date back to the 1970s, when the US government began running persistent budgetary deficits. Late in the next decade,…...

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1+ week, 1+ day ago   (953+ words) A looming funding gap could reshape retirement planning. Retirement may become substantially more expensive for Americans planning to leave the workforce in 2032 or later if Congress doesn't address Social Security's growing funding shortfall. The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report projects that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1254+ words) If you look carefully at the American landscape right now, you can spot patterns that suggest we are living through one of these transitional periods. Not a sudden collapse, but a gradual reconfiguration of how things work. The signs are…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (351+ words) The US national debt just crossed the $40 trillion threshold… Thank God, no, we aren’t going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and…...