The US national debt just passed the grim milestone of a record $40 trillion. But how do you visualize $40 trillion?

TOI correspondent from Washington: The United States’ national debt crossed $40 trillion on Tuesday, a number so large that even breaking it up with commas can scarcely make it…

‘Federal debt is already raising the cost of living and choking out other spending and investment,’ said one policy expert

An investigation into the incomprehensibly, unfathomably large amount of money the U.S. owes