Tag: Debt
Taking out a student loan for your child can hurt your...
Thomas Korankye, University of Arizona
When people take out student loans for themselves, certain risks are involved. The debt...
Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential reads
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation and Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
US$1.7 trillion. That’s how much college students and graduates owed...
What are the ethics of giving back money that doesn’t belong...
Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University
In Monopoly, a player who draws the card that says “BANK ERROR IN...
The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, why some economists...
I interviewed 48 bankrupt Americans – here’s who they blame for...
Tess Wise, Amherst College
The people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection had an 18% bankruptcy...
Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids
Jerome Gessaroli, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt...
Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
The shutdowns and restrictions that governments have imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have made it hard for...
Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids
Jerome Gessaroli, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt...