Most debt doesn’t pass directly to heirs, but it doesn’t always disappear either. What happens after death depends on your estate, your assets, and a few key exceptions.

Debt management can help lower costs and streamline payments, but it's important to account for the costs, too.

These consolidation loan alternatives can help you simplify your payments without adding to your debt.

Michael A. Peterson says the country is racing toward $40 trillion in debt.

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader ...

US debt increasingly functions less like a conventional balance sheet liability and more like financial infrastructure. It is ...

President Trump himself is among the investors piling into municipal debt. According to his latest financial disclosures, Mr.

That assumes a growth rate similar to the last decade’s. If the debt rockets up like it has over the last few years, the ...

Beyond Finance reports that rising living costs have increased financial stress, highlighting 8 signs of unmanageable debt.

From 2015 to 2017, Naseema McElroy paid off nearly $1 million in debt. Now, she's saving aggressively in pursuit of financial ...

Student loan debt isn't being shouldered equally by all age groups, with millennials and Gen X borrowers having particularly ...

Angola plans a $1.4 billion debt-for-health swap this year, the finance ministry said in a borrowing plan. The swap would ...