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  • 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
  • politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro
  • debt Expected family contributions for college loans might be going away, thanks to COVID-19 Thom Dunn
  • debt "Anarchist Anthropologist" David Graeber, credited with coining "The 99%," has died Thom Dunn
  • finance Cory Doctorow: America's economy is cooked Mark Frauenfelder
  • graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow
  • Business Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt 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
  • china MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? 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
  • graeber Danish banks will pay you to borrow money from them Cory Doctorow
  • late stage capitalism Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity Cory Doctorow
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