A visually striking new ad from a Republican Senate candidate provides a stark image of the U.S ... of an Everest-like graph depicting the soaring federal debt. Hovde’s scary-looking chart ...

Clinton draws a chart of public debt as he presents his 2001 full-year budget on Feb. 7, 2000. (Angeline Gazdag/The Clinton White House archives) This second image, which was taken by the same ...

The United States owes more than $36 trillion. Washington now spends close to $2 trillion more each year than it collects in ...

An additional significance of the chart: it identifies policy changes ... But you cannot logically argue that we absolutely must reduce deficits, but that we absolutely must also preserve every ...

U.S. households are reducing their debt -- that much ... the U.S. economy hit a somewhat significant milestone for debt affordability. Here's a chart showing the ratio of total household debt ...

Look at this chart from a recently released ... similar goals at a substantially lower price. While we’re at it, there’s another big student-debt issue that both parties still don’t have ...