Neoliberalism
Academic repression
Student loans
Fig. 1. Unattributed and undated image via James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal,[1] fair use.
In the [student loan forgiveness] round announced on Wednesday [February 21], people in the SAVE plan who originally borrowed up to $12,000 and who have made at least 10 years of qualifying monthly payments will have their debt wiped out.[2]
Yawn.
Megan Tomasic, “Biden administration to forgive $1.2 billion in student loan debt, impacting 153,000 borrowers,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 21, 2024, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2024/02/21/biden-administration-to-forgive-1-2-billion-in-student-loan-debt/stories/202402200105
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Biden Chips Away at Student Loan Debt, Bit by Bit, Amid High Expectations,” New York Times, February 21, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-debt.html
Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Finances
Fig. 1. Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, undated image credited to https://www.flickr.com/photos/glynlowe/ [bad link], via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Bill Cohan thinks Donald Trump can come up with the money, but it might be painful.[3] Letitia James has her eye on 40 Wall Street.[4]
Aaron Katersky and Peter Charalambous, “Letitia James says she’s prepared to seize Trump’s buildings if he can’t pay his $354M civil fraud fine,” ABC News, February 20, 2024, https://abcnews.go.com/US/letitia-james-shes-prepared-seize-trumps-assets-pay/story?id=107381482
William D. Cohan, “Sussing the Trump Estate Sale,” Puck, February 21, 2024, https://puck.news/sussing-the-trump-estate-sale/
- [1]Richard K. Vedder, “Eliminate or Radically Restructure Federal Student Loans,” James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, September 16, 2020, https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/09/eliminate-or-radically-restructure-federal-student-loans/↩
- [2]Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Biden Chips Away at Student Loan Debt, Bit by Bit, Amid High Expectations,” New York Times, February 21, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-debt.html↩
- [3]William D. Cohan, “Sussing the Trump Estate Sale,” Puck, February 21, 2024, https://puck.news/sussing-the-trump-estate-sale/↩
- [4]Aaron Katersky and Peter Charalambous, “Letitia James says she’s prepared to seize Trump’s buildings if he can’t pay his $354M civil fraud fine,” ABC News, February 20, 2024, https://abcnews.go.com/US/letitia-james-shes-prepared-seize-trumps-assets-pay/story?id=107381482↩