consumer debt 42% of Americans have less than $10k saved for retirement Mark Frauenfelder

consumer debt Americans living in the south are deeply in debt Mark Frauenfelder

graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism One of the world's largest private equity firms just bought one of the world's largest library ebook companies Cory Doctorow

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

institutional cruelty American are being hit with "zombie debts" from government benefits in the 1980s Mark Frauenfelder

elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow

elections A deep dive into Elizabeth Warren's plan to tame private equity Cory Doctorow

elections Elizabeth Warren's banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people Cory Doctorow

Business Chase customers have ONE MONTH left to opt out of binding arbitration Cory Doctorow

media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow

usausausa Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow

corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

Business In 2008 "synthetic CDOs" destroyed the global economy, and now they're back Cory Doctorow

Business Millennials are killing McMansions Cory Doctorow

scams FTC fines four robocallers behind “billions” of US calls Xeni Jardin

education What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos Cory Doctorow

transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow

student loans GOP wants to grab student loan payments right out of your paycheck Gina Loukareas

trumponomics Record number of Americans are 90 days late with auto payments Mark Frauenfelder