As interest rates and inflation surge, consumers face unprecedented challenges in managing credit card balances, prompting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alejandra Rojas is a finance expert covering entrepreneurs of color. Americans are still betting on themselves in 2025, starting ...

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Budgetary experts have been promising us a future “crisis” related to the national debt for years, and in some instances, decades. If you’re reading this, you likely know some of their names: ...

While headlines focus on inflation, market instability, and job growth, another crisis has been quietly unfolding: student loan debt. As of April 2025, roughly 5.8 million federal student loan ...

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Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so routinely and confidently ...

If current fiscal trends continue, the United States could face a reckoning far sooner than many policymakers admit. Some economists warn that within five years, when the federal debt may approach $50 ...

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America does not look like a nation in fiscal distress—and that’s exactly the problem. The S&P 500 has more than doubled in the past five years. Unemployment is at a multi-decade low. Social Security ...