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rest in power "Anarchist Anthropologist" David Graeber, credited with coining "The 99%," has died Thom Dunn
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Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow
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
heterodoxy Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
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vultures 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
capital one "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow
thomas cook Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it Cory Doctorow
medical bankruptcies Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow
