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We Need a Shadow CBO

by Jeff Madrick,

The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office???s long-term budget projections

Class Struggle

From almost 2,000 comments about student loans sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and released on its website last June. Americans currently owe more than $1 trillion in outstanding…

The Price of Admission

by Thomas Frank,

Infinite debt

by Thomas Geoghegan,

How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy

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Art by Tim Bower,

Who’ll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke

by Vince Passaro,

The roaring eighties

by Robert Lekachman,

How banks destroy the economy

by Martin Mayer,

Debt Threatens Democracy

by Roy Addison Helton,

Invitation to bankruptcy

by Harper’s Staff,

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