Wondering if your debt load is too high? Here's how to gauge it — and what else you should keep in mind right now.

Explore what debt load means, how it's calculated, its benefits, and potential risks for companies. Learn key metrics to ...

Explore the definition of foreign debt, its rise, and economic impacts. Learn about challenges like debt crises and effects on growth and human rights.

Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

The U.S. government’s national debt recently topped $34 trillion, a new record. But how worried should you be about the country’s borrowing? The debt has been a source of tension among politicians, ...

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The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio is a financial metric that measures a company's financial leverage by comparing its total debt to shareholders' equity. It indicates how much debt a company uses to ...

The coming banking crisis, and suggestions of an incoming bust in commercial real estate, has given rise to some questions about recourse versus non-recourse debt and what impact the differences in ...

More than three-quarters of Americans are in some type of debt. Three in five have revolving credit card debt, meaning they ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected Congress' bipartisan plan that would have temporarily funded the government and dodged a serious shutdown that could begin on Friday night. But Trump ...