…think the debt ceiling is a stronger lever. “The debt ceiling has a fair amount of leverage. It’s the only thing that I can think of for the foreseeable future…

…of their debt, while the median white borrower has paid off 94% of their debt. Stephen Jansen of Milwaukee graduated with over $100,000 in student debt from undergraduate and graduate…

…less ‘safe’? I would argue quite the opposite. Specifically, for all EA investors – using external debt statistics from the World Bank/IMF, I calculate that EA government debt held outside…

…others when you feel like it. But there is an important extra consideration, debt: our freedom in an individualist world is constrained by obligations to repay the debts we have…

…shows that a rational investor should be indifferent to the currency in which debt liabilities are held. If the liabilities consist of public debt denominated in a foreign currency, the…

…is simple: debt. Without debt there would be no “economic growth.” Debt finances growth; growth services debt. And they all lived happily ever after. But some debt takes “riskier forms.”…

…Harvard professors and noted by a U Mass Amherst student). I am old enough to remember warnings about the national debt in the 70s, before Reagan, when the debt to…

“Who got rich off the student debt crisis?” – Reveal (revealnews.org), James B. Steele and Lance Williams A bit of a story of how we got to this student loan debt debacle….

…outstanding debt to the public because the remaining obligations will mostly consist of savings bonds, well-entrenched holdings of long-term marketable debt, and perhaps other types of debt that could prove…

…those with medical debt say their mental health deteriorated while in debt, which strains relationships and lowers self-esteem. The problem of skyrocketing medical debt has drawn intense scrutiny from the…