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Debt
Digging Up a Mountain of Debt
As coal companies go broke, they're leaving taxpayers holding the bag.
The Subprime Specter Returns: High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt
Subprime lending is once again on the rise.
The Potential of Debtors’ Unions
Aiming to build collective power in an age of financial absolutism, the Debt Collective is piloting a new kind of organization: the debtors' union.
Economist Warren Mosler: If the EU Doesn’t Loosen Its Deficit Limits, Greece Should Leave the Euro
Economist and modern monetary theorist Warren Mosler shares what he believes could help lead Greece out of its crisis.
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Capitalism – Not China – Is to Blame for the Current Global Economic Decline
The cause of global economic decline is the capitalist contradiction that can no longer be postponed by credit extension.
Runaway Inequality Is Ripping Us Apart
Les Leopold, author of “Runaway Inequality,” discusses how progressives can form a united movement against income inequality.
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The Impossible Dream for Most First-Generation College Students
Too many schools are more concerned with tuition payments than with students' welfare and learning.
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The Bank-Free, DIY Lending System That Helps Friends and Families Finance Themselves
Who needs banks when you have communities?
We’re Asking the Wrong Question About the Debt Ceiling
Just in time for Halloween, the specter of a nation-paralyzing debt crisis threatens to rise once again from the crypt of bad ideas.
How Obama Could Beat the Debt Ceiling and Go Out a Hero
The debt ceiling could be eliminated for good, by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money.