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All Gains Are Incremental

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On August 27, 2022
Yes, the student loan relief created by Biden does not eliminate all student loans. No, it is not paradise on Earth. But every single economic program in this nation's history has been incremental in implementation--Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards...

Debt

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On September 17, 2021

There's been a surprising paucity of articles in the media about Occupy's 10th anniversary, but Dissent has run a good series on it. One of the essays is on the.

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The Case for Economic Anxiety

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On November 2, 2019
David Shankbone [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)] What if it's 2008, but with corporate debt instead of mortgage debt and comparatively little room for monetary stimulus? That's what my colleague, Andreas Kern, argues in a piece at The Conversation. All American companies are currently sitting on...

Vultures

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On August 4, 2014

At the same time that U.S. courts are limiting the ability of foreign citizens to sue American corporations for their malfeasance abroad, they are facilitating U.S. banking companies to collect.

Default

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On December 4, 2011

Natalia Antonova (who in full disclosure is a former editor of mine) on making the decision to default on her student loan debt, even though it will screw her over.

Debt

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On November 29, 2011
Sarah Jaffe has been all over the issue of debt lately, chronicling who is profiting from the massive debt young people have to take on in order to graduate from college and how people are fighting back. Great stuff. See here and here. This debt...
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