Budget, Debt, and Deficits

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Debt Drives a Wedge in Senegal
December 18, 2025
By Michelle Gavin
Backgrounder
What Is the U.S. Federal Reserve?
September 16, 2025
Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shrink Renewable Energy Investments—Yet Some Technologies Are Preserved
August 4, 2025
By Mia Beams and Akkshath Subrahmanian
CFR Sovereign Risk Tracker
May 21, 2025
By Benn Steil
Mitch McConnell's Foreign Policy Wisdom
December 16, 2024
By Elliott Abrams
Backgrounder
The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games
July 20, 2024
For the First Time, the U.S. Is Spending More on Debt Interest than Defense
May 23, 2024
By Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding
Backgrounder
The U.S. National Debt Dilemma
December 4, 2023
Defunding Climate Action: What’s at Stake in GOP Cuts to International Aid
November 23, 2023
By Latanya Mapp Frett
The Future of Dollar Hegemony
August 22, 2023
By Upamanyu Lahiri
Kenya’s Governance Dilemma
August 22, 2023
By Michelle Gavin
Two Takes on U.S. Debt and the Debt Ceiling
July 12, 2023
By Benn Steil
Backgrounder
What Happens When the U.S. Hits Its Debt Ceiling?
June 27, 2023
The U.S. Has Every Reason It Needs to Drop the Debt Ceiling—Both at Home and Abroad
June 8, 2023
By Brad W. Setser
Out of the Debt Ceiling Fire, But Still in the Frying Pan
June 2, 2023
By Christopher M. Tuttle
As the Debt Ceiling Crisis Looms, Allies and Adversaries Are Watching
February 21, 2023
By Heidi E. Crebo-Rediker
Greece's Debt Crisis
October 28, 2022
By James McBride, Kevin Lizarazo and Jeremy Sherlick
What’s at Stake in the Debt Ceiling Showdown
September 28, 2021
By Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
The Belt and Road Initiative: Forcing Europe to Reckon with China?
April 27, 2021
By Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett
Belt and Road in Kenya: COVID-19 Sparks a Reckoning with Debt and Dissatisfaction
March 25, 2021
By Guest Blogger for Africa in Transition
Nigerian Lawmakers Consider a Petroleum Investment Bill
March 24, 2021
By John Campbell
Backgrounder
How COVID-19 Is Harming State and City Budgets
March 19, 2021
How Can Low-Income Countries Cope With Coronavirus Debt?
April 22, 2020
By Brad W. Setser
What Exactly is in the New Agreement Between Puerto Rico's Board and its Creditors?
February 11, 2020
By Brad W. Setser