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

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

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

reverse mortgages Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow

neo-serfdom Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working 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

the real puertopia Elizabeth Warren proposes debt relief for Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow

strike debt Elizabeth Warren's latest proposal: cancel student debt, make college free Cory Doctorow