Deficits, Debt, and DOGE
Do I agree with everything Elon Musk is doing with DOGE? Absolutely not. Is something like what he is doing necessary at this point? Yes.
Tagged: debt
Maybe Forgiveness After All
How much debt should you legally be able to take on before you can legally drink alcohol?
Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Play on Student Loan Debt
Elizabeth Warren delivered a student loan proposal which demands attention.
A Conservative Case for Student Loan Forgiveness
Repairing the student loan crisis should be a bipartisan issue and I’d even go so far as to say there’s a strong conservative case in favor of.
The Unforgivable Sin of Student Loans
Student loan debt has surpassed auto loans and credit cards to become the second largest type of consumer debt in the country, behind home mortgages. Some predict that the effects of the student loan bubble popping will have similar effects as the housing market collapse of 2008.
A Capitalist’s Love Ballad to Bankruptcy
In Burt’s recent FP post, he takes a hypothetical bankruptcy scenario posed by Randy Harris and teases out the personal and professional ethics of the fictional players. If you haven’t read it yet, you...
Basketball Bet: Bad Bankruptcy Barrister
Randy Harris won our NCAA pool this year and has selected me to write an article in response to this hypothetical, which I present here with minor editorial changes from what Randy sent me:...
Austerity On The Run
I wanted to flag this before it became too much Old News. Andrew Sullivan, still a self-described conservative and a tireless deficit hawk, has looked to the events in Europe and concluded that austerity —...
My Two Cents (Worth only half a cent 10 years from now…)
The biggest and greatest village preoccupation over the past several years has been the national debt. This has been helped by the criminal mismanagement (and I do mean this quite literally, if Greece were...
The Future Is Now: The Birth Of The American Wasteland
A really interesting piece from the Times‘ Binyamin Appelbaum focuses on how parts of the country where the housing bubble was the most pronounced — and where there was historically nowhere near the same...
Odium Surplus/Odium Deficit
A common way to talk about crime and punishment is to liken them to debt and repayment: A crime creates a debt to society; if the criminal is caught and convicted, a just sentence...
Deal with the devil
Here’s Kevin Drum: There are a few liberal pundits out there who believe that a cuts-only deal like this one isn’t all that bad. Jon Chait is one of the leading proponents of this...
Paul Ryan’s Budget
“If Obama’s efforts to create a viable regulatory framework in which individuals can buy private health insurance (a) pass congress, and (b) turn out to work well and be popular, then you can imagine...
Overcompensation or necessary correction?
Megan McArdle has a fascinating article on anti-debt evangelist David Ramsey, whose advice on personal finance sounds pretty darn sensible.
A Critique of the System, or: A Fool and his Money….
I think what many mainstream defenders of Geithner or the rescue plan don’t realize is that critics of the plan are not always merely partisan hacks out with a political agenda. Some of us...
Jindal: debt is bad when we say it is
I’m open to hearing a defense of Bobby Jindal from Matt Yglesias’s allegations. But I am having a hard time imagining what such a defense could mean. Bobby Jindal was not out there beating...
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