fafsa Expected family contributions for college loans might be going away, thanks to COVID-19 Thom Dunn

david graeber "Anarchist Anthropologist" David Graeber, credited with coining "The 99%," has died Thom Dunn

debt Cory Doctorow: America's economy is cooked Mark Frauenfelder

capital one Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow

sic semper monopolist Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Cory Doctorow

va Med-tech company repossess veteran's artificial legs because the VA won't cover them Cory Doctorow

Government Accountability Office Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow

growth MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? Cory Doctorow

intergenerational debt-transfer 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

Coffeyville In Kansas's poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor's prison Cory Doctorow

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

dansk memes Danish banks will pay you to borrow money from them Cory Doctorow

emcare Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity Cory Doctorow

bubbles High art subprime: borrowing on private art collections surges into billions Cory Doctorow

debt bondage How Memphis's Methodist University Hospital, a "nonprofit," sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each Cory Doctorow

debt forgiveness Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow