The U.S. national debt is about to reach $40 trillion for the first time — and hit $50 trillion soon after

Soberingly, Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, Michael Hartnett, predicts that the next milestone, $50 trillion, will ...

More Americans are having a harder time keeping up with their home and car payments

More Americans are falling even further behind on their home and car loans than at any time in the past decade, new data from ...

Rocket Lab's Dilution Dilemma: Iridium Acquisition And Neutron's Ticking Clock

Rocket Lab is positioned as the second most important US satellite launch provider, with the future hinging on the Neutron ...
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The Clock Is Ticking on Wall Street's $1.5 Trillion Powder Keg, and History Says Time Is Almost Up

Margin represents the amount of money an investor borrows from their broker to short-sell (wager against) or purchase securities. Borrowing capital allows a broker to charge an investor interest. In ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Small businesses took on debt, raised prices to cope with tariffs

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Whether the Trump fiscal agenda can meaningfully slow the federal debt clock

Whether the Trump fiscal agenda can meaningfully slow the federal debt clock Navy responds to reports USS Lincoln sailors are trying to jump overboard This surprising Senate race could ruin Democrats’ ...
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For whom the debt tolls: US ‘default doomsday’ clock nears midnight. This is why it matters for you

The American economy has a doomsday clock - and it’s ticked even closer to midnight. The “Debt Default Clock” - which measures how close the country is to a financial crisis - is only two economic ...
Morningstar

Debt Default Clock Moves to Two Minutes to Midnight — Closest to Midnight in the Clock's History

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Debt Default Clock Review Committee today moved its Debt Default Clock from three minutes to midnight to two minutes to midnight, the closest the Clock has ...
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Why Trump's plan to stop America's debt clock may already be failing

Why Trump's plan to stop America's debt clock may already be failing Centcom commander visits USS Lincoln after reports of conditions onboard Stop using your car's USB port to charge your phone Viral ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Credit card debt is squeezing households — credit counselors say act now

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Chicago’s public clocks are the physical heartbeat of the city

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...
Phys.org

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...