#Debt

I did a talk in the excellent @MarkusEconomist Academy series yesterday on “Do Debt and Deficits Matter Anymore.” You can watch the video, see the slides, or read this longish
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"Nothing has really changed since the 2008-09 crisis." - Satyajit Das http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inside-the-global-elites-bag-of-financial-tricks-2017-02-21 Satyajit Das was one of a number of folks who saw the last crash coming, even
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Why the education system doesn't teach you about money // A Thread // The education system was created by the governmentAnd the government wants to turn you intoA cash flowing
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Across England we're seeing new restrictions but #MissingProtections @CitizensAdvice analysis shows:Enforcement of council tax debt still ongoing in tier 3 areas No new financial support for people struggling to pay
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1/10 Let's take a close look at a dumpster fire of a BDC and how these BDCs use fake marks and leverage to boost fees - Franklin Square/EIG Power and
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This amazingly punchy piece by @adam_tooze blew my mind. He eloquently translates the technical details of my paper into the bigger (politics & policy) picture, which I neither could do
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THREAD: Trust. It’s a highly underrated “gut feeling” when a person closes the curtain behind them to vote. I strongly support many of @PeteButtigieg’s policies but here are 4 reasons
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Coronavirus has hit thousands of students in the pocket. We have long known that student maintenance support is inadequate, and the government has failed to address the various cost of
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Love your enemies but know who they areYou should all know who @collecamp isThe basic idea here is that instead of solving the real crisis of student debt it just
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Property investing may not be for youThis is why//THREAD\\ I used to believeEverybody owns propertyProperty is the easiest way to investProperty is a sure bet - the value always goes
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Surprised to read that in 1810 women (almost all of whom were spinsters and widows) made up approximately one third of the holders of British government debt; a figure which
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I think it could be helpful if more lawyers were open about the fact that they made a consumer proposal to deal with debt (student or otherwise), it that they
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Tidjane Thiam, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and others call for a two-year moratorium on eurobond payments by African sovereigns to free up funds to fight the pandemic. (This would be default, the
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Trump lives in the "eternal, immortal now", so the real danger comes this fall when Trump goes for broke for re-election. Trump didn't reverse course on "the cure is worse
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How To Be More Financially Secure (Thread)1 - Multiple Streams Of IncomeTo have multiple streams of income is so important.No ones job is 100% safe as the last year
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Ahead of hearing at 2nd Circuit tmrw, Manhattan DA says they are investigating why “between 2004-2014, Trump faced billions in liabilities and yet somehow had money to purchase ‘five houses,
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