Hospital bad debt and charity care costs continue to rise nationally, with growth accelerating in several regions since 2022, according to Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report” released Dec.

I have not been a debt hawk for most of my 30-year career; however, that has changed recently. Continued high deficit spending by the U.S. government combined with a compacting of U.S. Treasury bond ...

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 ...

The fall of the French government on Monday because of its failure to get through parliament an austerity program to deal with rising government debt is a very sharp political expression of the ...