fafsa Expected family contributions for college loans might be going away, thanks to COVID-19 Thom Dunn
rest in power "Anarchist Anthropologist" David Graeber, credited with coining "The 99%," has died Thom Dunn
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
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
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
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
