Meet the pro-austerity hypocrites
The wealthy corporate titans behind Fix the Debt are using a loophole to avoid paying taxes, a new report charges
Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:22 PM UTC 13Politics Fix the Debt, Bowles-Simpson
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Politics Fix the Debt, Bowles-Simpson
Slow growth creates debt, not the other way around
As any FDR historian can tell you, government spending is the best stimulus for a slumping economy
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 10:11 PM UTC 10Business RobertReich.org
Whoops! Turns out debt doesn’t ruin economies
A paper justifying international austerity measures had a couple of mistakes that totally undermine its argument
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 73Media Opening Shot, Debt, Austerity
GOP’s go-to economics study debunked
New research reveals that high public debt may not stifle economic growth as two popular economists have theorized
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 5:48 PM UTC 19Business Next New Deal, GOP
Government profits on student debt
Student borrowers pay record interest rates on government-backed loans, boosting Dept. of Education coffers
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 4:00 PM UTCBusiness Student Loan Debt, Debt
ACLU: Ohio illegally jailing debtors
The modern-day debtors' prisons push poor defendants further into destitution
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 7:31 PM UTC 19News Ohio, Prison, Debt, debtors' prison
GOP: We’ve been lying all along
Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives
Monday, Mar 18, 2013 11:15 AM UTC 102Business John Boehner, Republicans, Debt
Wall Street debt pushes up NYC transit fares
New Yorkers are about to get their fourth fare hike in five years. Jesse Myerson explains who gets the raises VIDEO
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 7:41 PM UTCBusiness Video, New York Subway, Transport
Congress is ravaging the economy all by itself
The latest CBO data reveals that government is cutting economic growth in half, with no discernible benefit
Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 9:47 PM UTCBusiness Jared Bernstein, On the Economy
Student loans: The next housing bubble
College students accrue hundreds of thousands in debt with little hope of paying it back. It's a cruel game
Monday, Feb 4, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 77News student loans, Debt, law school
John Roberts bankrupts law students
The Supreme Court justice is paid thousands to "teach" in Europe -- and his law students are footing the bill
Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 57Politics Supreme Court, John Roberts
Debt is ingrained in America’s way of life
David Graeber's sweeping history "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" helps explain our country's basic power dynamics
Sunday, Jan 6, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 15Business LA Review of Books, Debt, economy
America’s credit system is broken
I've carefully avoided debt my entire working life. So why am I having so much trouble getting a credit card?
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 5:48 PM UTC 37Business Next New Deal, OKCupid
Must I repay the jerk?
I find a job, he lends me the money, I move 8,000 miles to be with him. Then he says he's not really feeling it!
Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 94Life Love and Sex, Since You Asked
Study: Unhappiness hurts fiscal health
Are you sad because you're broke, or broke because you're sad?
Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 10:42 PM UTCLife Psychology, Science, Neuroscience
New group: America’s youth cry out for sensible, moderate deficit reduction
A hip new group of "activists" pretends the youth believe in austerity -- and lower taxes for the rich
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 12:45 PM UTC 20Politics Federal Deficit, deficit hawks
Get ready for the phony debt fight
Both candidates agree: The national debt is the most urgent challenge facing the nation. But it's not -- at all
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012 5:15 PM UTC 16Politics Pete Peterson, budget deficit
More and more families moving in together
Census data shows 4.3 million U.S. households include a parent, a grandparent and a child
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 12:34 PM UTCLife Retirement, Student Debt, Census
Ten filthy rich, tax-dodging hypocrites
The "Fix the Debt" coalition pushes tax breaks for the rich and saddles the rest of us with the burden they created
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 7:53 PM UTC 38Politics Class warfare, On the Economy
Why student loans are just like mortgages
It's not just homeowners anymore. Big borrowing and zero oversight has left students drowning in debt
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 1:01 PM UTC 15Politics Mortgage Crisis, Debt, ProPublica
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