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U.S. student loan debt now equals the size of the $1.3 trillion U.S. high-yield corporate bond market, presenting investors with a whole different ... (2017)
Brown University has initiated a $120 million campaign to drop all loans from financial aid packages given to their undergraduates. (2017)
THE faded modernist façades along Copacabana’s beachfront hark back to Brazil’s optimistic past. The seaside promenade, where walking sticks outnum... (2017)
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international ... (2017)
How have German universities been able to abolish tuition fees when English universities are charging £9,000? More than a million young people wil... (2017)
"Despite the high cost of college in this country, most American students will choose to go to school here. But a growing number of students are ge... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: “Transworld has been one of most prolific debt collectors, filing more than 38,000 lawsuits in the last three years on behalf... (2017)
Rolling Stone, 2017: “How universities, banks and the government turned student debt into America's next financial black hole... Parents, not w... (2017)
Mark Cuban, 2012: "Its far too easy to borrow money for college. Did you know that there is more outstanding debt for student loans than there is... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: "After $70,000 in payments, one teacher found that he wasn’t in the public service loan forgiveness program after all. Now, ... (2017)
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)
Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)
New federal data show the Texas university and some other colleges with big endowments guided families into no-limit Parent Plus loans to cover ris... (2021)
Instead of propelling students into the middle class, many public institutions such as the University of Alabama are leaving them saddled with larg... (2021)
The EU can now borrow, but how well can the member nations spend? | Briefing (2021)
Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted | Leaders (2021)
DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider targeting smaller business and younger companies, announced today that it has secured $100 million in... (2020)
A combination of the 2017 tax cuts and a surge in new spending has pushed the deficit wider. (2020)
Education startup Kenzie Academy, one of the several new ventures that provide financing for students in exchange for a proportion of future earnin... (2019)
$1.5 trillion. That’s the amount of outstanding student loan debt held by American citizens according to the New York Fed. It is an astronomical su... (2019)
Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery. "Across conversations in Kenya’s pubs and What... (2019)
Senator Elizabeth Warren and congressional Democrats question Trump administration's plans to back income-share agreements -- and demand answers fr... (2019)
Growing up, my dream was to become a teacher. And I knew that if I wanted to teach, I had to get a college degree. I managed to get a college schol... (2019)
Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment. (2019)
Universities could have used online learning to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Instead they allowed forprofit companies to devou... (2019)
Imagine a world where you had a personal board of advisors — the people you most admire and respect — and you gave them upside in your future earni... (2019)
Debt is a big reason, but there are others. (2016)
By Liz McCormick , Saleha Mohsin , and Alexandre Tanzi January 28, 2019, 12:00 AM EST Updated on January 28, 2019, 7:39 AM EST Auction boosts ... (2019)
Microcredit, explained: how microcredit can help the world’s poorest. Microcredit was once hailed as a solution to global poverty. Recent studie... (2019)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
Published on Aug 31, 2013 A video looking at way you can't simply print money to pay off debt. And what has happened when countries have tried to!... (2017)
College in the United States is expensive. The cost of higher education just keeps going up. Tuition costs at both public and private universities ... (2019)
Eschewing consumer culture, Pete Adeney, also known as Mr. Money Mustache, practices an extreme frugality that allowed him to retire at age 30. Avo... (2018)
After WWI, Europe's leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the... (2018)
Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of t... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Apr 10, 2016 Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they ... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Jun 5, 2016 Companies that purchase debt cheaply then collect it aggressively are shockingly easy to start. We can... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 10, 2014 Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military serv... (2018)
If you've ever wondered why some people think renting is better than owning, here's the explanation behind how that can be true. (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Aug 9, 2016 There’s already been much discussion over what fueled the Great Recession of 2008. In t... (2018)
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)
There’s something wrong with prices in funding and bond markets, according to this week’s Odd Lots guest. Zoltan Pozsar is a former adviser to the ... (2019)
Counselors and parents are hesitant for students to take out loans for college. But a new study shows that borrowing money can actually be helpful ... (2018)
So how much should you have saved for retirement? We wanted to know, so we asked the guy who invented the 401k. (2018)
Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the political and economic c... (2018)