Business The Wall Street Journal on the decade since the crash: inequality, giant banks, regulatory failures, looming catastrophe Cory Doctorow
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class war Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow
Business Nudging doesn't give poor people retirement savings, it just makes them poorer Cory Doctorow
piketty Modern Monetary Theory: the economic basis for expanded social spending and greater shared prosperity Cory Doctorow
trumpism Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines Cory Doctorow
trumpism Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled Cory Doctorow
law States suspend your driver's license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay Cory Doctorow
surveillance Chelsea Manning: we're spied on all the time, and the state still can't figure out who we are Cory Doctorow
Business Chinese cops treat kidnapping as a routine form of largely acceptable debt-collection Cory Doctorow
uk Student loans are really "a list of people liable to additional taxation after graduation" Cory Doctorow
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