“In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.” LongHardGovernmentFormTermDealsSituationStepsEconomicRight NowDistanceProsperityCreditDebtStormLong TermFederal GovernmentBrewingHyperboleEconomic ProsperityDebaclesGovernment Debt Author:Richard W. Fisher
“Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.” KnowsProblemJobsKnow HowSourceRight NowDebtRevenueThailand Author:Yingluck Shinawatra
“We have to do more to make it easier for parents to balance work and family. If you left college with a ton of loans, it`s not enough just to make college more affordable. You need help right now with the debt you already have.” IfsNeedsEnoughHelpingLeftParentCollegeBalanceEasierRight NowDebtLoanAffordableNeed Help Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.” KindGenerationsHigherRight NowClintonBurdenDebtHopelessLockedHigher Education Author:Jill Stein
“In the meantime, we have just incredible economic disparities and economic despair in this country and an entire generation that is basically held hostage in debt without the jobs to get out of it. And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarCountryJobsGenerationsEconomicHairRight NowDespairWeaponsClimateIncrediblesDebtNuclearFlamesDiscoveringNuclear WeaponsExpandingTriggersHostageDisparity Author:Jill Stein
“I think we're at a really unique moment right now because the American people are waking up to the fact that it is a race to the bottom between these two corporate parties that are sending jobs overseas, putting downward pressure on wages, starving people out of healthcare, locking an entire generation into unpayable predatory student loan debt.” PeopleThinkingTwoMomentsFactsJobsPartyRaceGenerationsStudentsRight NowUniqueWake UpPressureBottomDebtCorporateWakingHealthcareWagesLoanStarvingPredatoryStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.” PeopleIfsHelpingMillionsStudentsRight NowRateDebtLoanRefinance Author:Hillary Clinton
“The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.” IfsWantGivingHumansKindStoriesFormWalksEconomicRight NowStandardsGive MeRelationAssumingDebtFascinatingOngoingHuman RelationsClosure Author:David Graeber
“What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.” KnowsTodayDecisionEconomyRight NowConcernedImpactDebtEndlessCompromiseBorrowingDecisions We Make Author:Paul Ryan