Lawmakers thwart an international tax on U.S. companies that Janet Yellen and Joe Biden never should have allowed. Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized President Trump’s tariffs, in an ...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen warned that America’s mounting national debt could cripple policymakers and limit their ability to address the country’s other fiscal challenges. Speaking at ...

The United States has crossed a threshold that many economists once treated as a distant warning, not an imminent reality. With federal obligations now measured in the tens of trillions of dollars, ...

Two thousand years before the U.S. federal government’s debt crossed the $38 trillion threshold, the Roman Empire faced a similar-looking calculus: a state with increasingly expensive obligations and ...

U.S. government bonds suffered the biggest one-day selloff in more than a month on Thursday as investors were spooked by the latest signal of interest rate increases from Federal Reserve Chairwoman ...