About $220,000 of the debt was accumulated for law school at J.D. Widener University/Delaware Law School, after she was already $22,000 in debt from a Master’s at Seton Hall.

In a recent published decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addressed a previously unresolved question in that circuit: whether a debtor's failure to properly schedule a debt ...

A debtor's decision regarding the assumption or rejection of executory contracts and unexpired leases is entitled to deference under the business judgment rule. When a debtor sells substantially ...

Foreigners' net claim on U.S. debt is currently approaching $11 trillion. Granted, most of that is in Treasuries, the safest, most liquid and most sought-after asset in the world.

The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the total has expanded rapidly since 2008.

In all, the U.S. spent $1.8 trillion more than it took in, contributing to a national debt that we have been building on and off since the country's founding. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Actor: Welcome to ...

Dejected after a second legal setback to President Biden’s $430 billion student debt cancellation plan, some exasperated borrowers told The Post they won’t pay another penny toward their ...

With Japan’s debt-to-G.D.P. ratio running above 200 percent for the past five years, creditors will reach a point where they say, “Enough is enough,” Mr. Yano said.

New data from the Treasury Department released Friday afternoon showed that the gross national debt hit $36,034,994,586,981.97. The $36 trillion debt milestone comes just months after the U.S ...

Moody’s Ratings Service on Friday said it is downgrading the U.S.’s creditworthiness in response to an increase in government debt over the past decade and rising interest payments, in a blow ...

When Mr. Trump entered office in 2017, the deficit was 3.4 percent of gross domestic product, and the national debt stood at a hair under 75 percent of national income.