It does not look like students holding loan debt and looking for relief will get any relief soon. Newly minted President Donald Trump is in the revenge mode. That would…

…Student Loan Debt? (forbes.com) How Biden helped create the student debt problem he now promises to fix | US elections 2020 | The Guardian President Biden changing his mind on student…

Via Salon, David Sirota points to statements by John Boehner and Rand Paul: America owes this debt of gratitude to Boehner after he finally came clean on yesterday’s edition of…

Here are reminders of Angry Bear posts and contrbutor thinking on “Wealth, debt,and consumption”. Wealth versus income Usually my articles present facts and data and try to drive down to…

It’s already clear that Republican congressional leaders now recognize that the Republicans actually have no leverage at all on the debt ceiling matter; they’re not going to pull that trigger,…

My mobile just got a call from a robotic “Amy” asking me to take a 30-second survey about “the nation’s debt crisis.” Since I don’t live in Greece and could…

…debt ceiling. For months Mitch McConnell has asserted both that the debt ceiling shall and must be raised and that he plans to blame Democrats for raising it. Your not…

…the blame.  In addition, the best play for Biden in the event we hit the debt ceiling may well have been prioritization of interest payments and trying to turn the…

…(Essentially the “loanable funds” notion.) If you bolt on a (international) financial sector that constantly creates new/additional financial assets, and (especially) a sovereign fiat-money-issuing government sector (with the arabesques of…

…obligation to pay all amounts that have been authorized by Congress — both expenditure and debt obligations. Since the borrowing limit has been reached and Congress won’t let us sell…