economics "Your debt is someone else's asset", a short film from The Intercept, Mollie Crabapple and co., and Astra Taylor Elías Villoro
twitter With its huge new debt burden, Twitter makes less money per year than what it owes its lenders in interest Mark Frauenfelder
debt Expected family contributions for college loans might be going away, thanks to COVID-19 Thom Dunn
graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow
health Med-tech company repossess veteran's artificial legs because the VA won't cover them Cory Doctorow
scholarship Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow
debt High prices and debt mean millennials don't plan to stop renting, and that's before their parents retire and become dependent on them Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
health In Kansas's poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor's prison Cory Doctorow
class war Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow
Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow
Business Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity Cory Doctorow
