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Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton

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Joe Biden's Petition to Forgive All Student Debt

A petition for Joe Biden to forgive all student debt on his first day in office is just outrageous. This is a simply demand for the three-quarter, the two-thirds of the population who do not have a college degree to bail out the one-third who do. And what's more is to make, you know, promise that it'll be done forever after or in the future so that colleges can wind up their tuition rates even further. But this is like politics in India now where you know people get elected on promising to forgive the farmers all their debts.

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