Tag: Debt
Certain states, including Arizona, have begun scrapping court costs and fees...
Alexes Harris, University of Washington and Alex R. Piquero, University of Miami
In today’s American criminal legal system, courts...
How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Tom Miller Jr., Mississippi State University
With the cost of borrowing money...
US faces $31.4 trillion national debt crisis – and Republican divisions...
Thomas Gift, UCL
US federal debt currently stands at a staggering US$31.4 trillion (£25.2 trillion), the highest it’s ever...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
