Day November 6, 2026

Budget, Personal Loans

Bills Push the Debt’s Average Rate to 3.58%, a Level Last Seen in 2009

Wide view of the neoclassical limestone facade and tall fluted columns of a United States federal government finance building in Washington photographed at first light with long shadows falling across wide granite steps an empty stone plaza in the foreground and a cool blue pre dawn sky with thin high clouds above the roofline

The average rate on U.S. interest-bearing federal debt reached 3.580% on October 31, the highest since April 2009, as Treasury bills topped 4% for the first time in a year.

Shelly Warding
November 6, 2026