Tag: Debt

Paul Kiel & Mitchell Hartman: Soldiers Defeated by Debt
May 2013Federal law is supposed to protect service members from predatory lending, but many military personnel are trapped in high-interest debt.

Robert Reich: Public Debt and Economic Growth
April 2013Government should fuel growth by spending more—at least in the short run.


Robert Reich: Why Consumers are Bummed Out
January 2013Profits are high, wages are low, and the imbalance can’t last.

Robert Reich: The Hoax of Entitlement Reform
January 2013Cutting entitlements ignores the real problems behind the deficit.

Robert Reich: The Ongoing War
January 2013After the battle over the cliff, the battle over the debt ceiling.

Avi Kramer: The Fine Print
November 2012To get Internet access in my apartment I had to give up my legal rights.
You probably did too.

Andrew Ross: The Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual
November 2012Natasha Lewis speaks with Strike Debt member, professor, and author Andrew Ross.

Andy Kroll: The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education
October 2012Back to $chool: College is the past, prison is the future.

Beholden
May 2012Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors’ prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism


