In 1989, a New York businessman who was worried about chronic federal budget deficits erected the National Debt Clock in midtown Manhattan to keep a running tally of how much the U.S. government owes.

Sandwiched between a burger joint and an oyster bar in New York City hangs a daunting image: The National Debt Clock. And that debt number? It just keeps ticking up. How deep in the hole are we?

“So rapid is the rise of the U.S. national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times Square move in seemingly random increments as ...

When America’s “National Debt Clock” came online in 1989 near Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, the objective was to increase attention on our country’s spending problem. It hasn’t ...

NEW YORK — It was a sign of the times. And so, too, is its demise. New York real estate developer Seymour Durst conceived the idea of a National Debt Clock in the late 1980s, and put it up near ...

In 1989, a New York businessman who was worried about chronic federal budget deficits erected the National Debt Clock in midtown Manhattan to keep a running tally of how much the U.S. government owes.

A digital “debt clock” that displays a running 14-digit tally of the national debt, at $22 trillion and counting, was erected along I-43 in downtown Milwaukee.

Well, it's not breaking news, but it's worth noting as President Trump and Congress spar over spending that the national federal debt exceeds $20,000,000,000,000 — and is rising by the minute.

The National Debt Clock switched its digital dollar sign to a 1 on Monday to accommodate the nation's ballooning deficit, now past the $10 trillion mark, thanks to Congress' $700 billion bank ...

President Joe Biden’s new stimulus bill, the American Rescue Plan Act, will cost the nation roughly $1.9 trillion. And Biden’s new infrastructure bill will probably cost in the neighborhood of ...

Explaining the national debt, ... the debt clock that's been in Manhattan## since 1989 said our country owed $35# trillion, ... So the yearly deficits pile up and# keep the total debt swelling?

As the U.S. national debt clock ticks, lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday spoke to Fox News Digital about the potential "catastrophic" effects of a default on "so many different markets." "A ...