Politicians have discussed the importance of reigning in the U.S. government’s debt with varying vigor for decades. Those debates have brought more attention to federal debt over the years, leading to ...

In a sign of the times, the legendary National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing debt. The Times Square-area ticker needs two additional digits to track a ...

For eight years, a state pension debt clock sat in the Pennsylvania Capitol as a visual reminder of a bill that taxpayers are on the hook to pay. Last Thursday, the digital clock — that sometimes grew ...

It happened over the weekend: We woke up Monday morning and the United States Debt Clock had clicked past $35 trillion. A nice round number. Or perhaps just a round number. No nice about it. (You can ...

When America’s “National Debt Clock” came online in 1989 near Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, the objective was to increase attention on our country’s spending problem. It hasn’t worked. At the time ...

Ha, we totally forgot about the giant national-debt clock in Times Square, which was put up by real-estate developer Seymour Durst in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion deficit.

My Albanian-born father-in-law was an American patriot. In the mid-20th century, he served for decades as a CIA operative, quietly fighting against the spread of communism in Europe and Southeast Asia ...

NEW YORK -- In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock ...

NEW YORK (AP) âÄî In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the ...