Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Congress has just under three weeks to address the looming debt ceiling and avoid near-certain economic calamity. "We ...

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, ...

Could a $1 trillion platinum coin be the solution to the U.S. government's debt limit crisis? With politicians at a standoff, some senators and other proponents, at the last minute, have renewed talk ...

WASHINGTON — Terms and phrases like the "debt ceiling," reconciliation" and "continuing resolution" may sound like complicated government policies and procedures. However, the issues and policies are ...