Republicans in Congress are hashing out a new tax cut and spending bill that's projected to add trillions to the national debt. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains the ballooning national ...

about when exactly national debt becomes a problem. We will also try to figure out how worried we should be about the United States' current debt total of 26 trillion dollars. This episode was ...

The U.S. national debt now tops $35 trillion. That equates to nearly $105,000 for every man, woman, and child living in the United States. Put differently, the national debt is now as large as the ...