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
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
heterodoxy Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
no worlds left to conquer The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%'s growth comes from the upper middle class 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
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
reverse mortgages Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow
exiles Profiles of young Americans who entered voluntary exile rather than paying their student loans Cory Doctorow
Morehouse That billionaire who paid off a graduating class's student loans also supports the hedge-fundie's favorite tax loophole Cory Doctorow
rigged systems A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow
loan shark prevention act Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
