• Student debt is bad, student debt bailouts are worse

    Student debt, a new Gallup report shows, is making it harder for young people to reach key life milestones. According to a Gallup survey of over 14,000 adults, over 70% of people say student debt has “delayed major life events” including moving out of their parents’ home, getting married, and having a child. Strikingly, there […]

  • Anti-Terrorism Council redesignates CPP-NPA as terror group

    The Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) has maintained the terrorist designations of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) as well as the Islamic State East Asia (ISEA) and other Daesh-linked groups and has tagged an individual linked to various activities of communist rebels as a terrorist.

  • Debt Matters: Why It's Time To Position Into Countries With Low Outstanding Debt

    Debt Matters: Why It's Time To Position Into Countries With Low Outstanding Debt Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, In an era of economic uncertainty and volatility, the importance of managing national debt has never been more evident. Investors seek stability and long-term growth opportunities, so the spotlight turns towards countries with low outstanding debt. Understanding the Debt Conundrum National debt, often measured as a percentage of a country’s GDP,...

  • Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes

    You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...

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    Lima Kokua partners with RIP Medical Debt Relief to clear medical debt across nation

    “I was shocked to learn that medical debt was the number one cause of personal bankruptcy. This, along with the desire to help our neighbors across Hawaii, convinced our group that eliminating the medical debt hanging over many of them."

  • BANG!CASE is the ‘world’s first’ iPhone 15 case to add a second customizable Action Button

    We have featured a near countless number of iPhone cases around here over the years, but today it’s time to take a look at “the world’s first action-button phone case.” Apple introduced the new haptic Action Button on its latest iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone Pro Max handsets, and now the folks at Bitmo Lab – a brand that originates from collaborations with sspai and JSAUX – are ready to debut the new BANG!CASE. Alongside the see-through case back, onboard LED lighting, and magnetic charging, the case...

  • Donald Trump hush money case: More than 50 of the first 96 jurors are dismissed after admitting they CAN'T be impartial in the former president's criminal case

    The first batch of Manhattan residents were brought into the court and sworn in to begin the process of being picked for the first panel that will decide the fate of a former president in a criminal trial.

  • How we all got into debt

    Student loans continue to burden adults decades after they’ve left school, and credit card debt haunts many Americans. On the flip side, many of us make leveraged investments in our homes, taking out mortgages to buy houses that we expect to appreciate in value. In other words, debt structures American lives in myriad ways. But, as historian Louis Hyman writes, this is a relatively new thing. In the nineteenth century, Hyman points out, if an individual needed credit, they turned to friends,...

  • The business case for creativity

    In today’s corporate landscape, creativity is no longer confined to the marketing department, says David O’Hearns Keir Starmer has said we are in the midst of a “creativity crisis”, with arts subjects having been diminished and devalued for well over a decade. His recent speech said that the creative industry is essential for our economic []

  • The case for and against organic social

    Digiday has delved into the debate, weighing the arguments for and against marketers relying on organic social.

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    Dave Says: The Walking Debt

    Dear Dave, A few years ago, I had a real problem with credit card debt. Since then

  • LA COVID Debt Deadline

    The deadline is coming up for tenants in Los Angeles to repay all their past-due rent from earlier in the COVID.