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a collection of articles and videos looking at the mounting student debt crisis in the USA
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LIBOR, interest rates, global financial markets and scandals, manipulation
SWIFT payments - International Financial Markets
International reserve currencies - dollar, gold, euro, more
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Financial Crises - balance of payments, debt and international creditors, IMF, others
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Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right

Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)


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Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)


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How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist

The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)


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Special drawing wrongs - Issuing special drawing rights will be a sign of failure for the IMF

Poor countries need more help, but it should be transparent and targeted | Leaders (2021)


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Coronavirus Will End the Golden Age for College Towns - Bloomberg Opinion

These engines of regional growth will struggle with state funding cuts, fewer foreign students and destroyed household finances. (2020)


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Financial Times Argentina: how IMF’s biggest ever bailout crumbled under Macri - 2019

The decision to seek what became the biggest bailout in the IMF’s history took only a few minutes. A loss of faith in Argentina’s reform program... (2019)


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Argentina Could Unravel Fast As Central Banker Jumps Ship (2018) - Forbes

If history is any guide, Argentina's economy -- and its political leadership -- could explode at any minute. (2018)


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Desperate Venezuelans Turn to Video Games to Survive - Bloomberg

Virtual currencies from such games as RuneScape are prized in a country whose real money is worthless. (2018)


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What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist

ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)


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What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis - Bloomberg

The general public might understand what causes busts better than the wonks. (2018)


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Why has Argentina called in the IMF? - The Economist explains

IT WAS an announcement Mauricio Macri hoped never to have to make. On May 8th Argentina’s exhausted-looking president declared that Argentina was s... (2018)


Article

Student Loan Debt Is Now As Big as the U.S. Junk Market - Bloomberg

U.S. student loan debt now equals the size of the $1.3 trillion U.S. high-yield corporate bond market, presenting investors with a whole different ... (2017)


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Crypto Trading 101: The Fibonacci Retracements - CoinDesk

CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)


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What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?

Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)


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The Housing Vultures - by Francesca Mari

Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes... (2020)


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The official jobless numbers are horrifying. The real situation is even worse

The record unemployment numbers only hint at the crisis facing many with no work. (2020)


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Small Businesses Depend on the Stimulus Package. The Stimulus Will Depend on Fintech

The government is unprepared to identify, adjudicate, and disburse $350B of aid to small businesses without a sea of fraud. Tech is the answer. Now. (2020)


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St. Louis Fed estimates 32% unemployment, 52M out of work (March 2020) | St. Louis Fed

Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Next Quarter’s Unemployment Rate. Layoffs are certainly one of the effects of battling COVID-19. What sort of ... (2020)


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Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? || LongRead

The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming. (2018)


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The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis || The New Yorker

John Cassidy on the aftermath, which produced a lost decade for European economies and helped lead to the rise of anti-establishment political move... (2018)


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Opinion | The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined - The New York Times

New data reveals how colleges are benefiting from billions in financial aid while students are left with debt they cannot repay. (2018)


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What's Behind One of the Biggest Financial Scams in History - LIBOR - Wharton

The LIBOR scandal is one of the biggest financial scrams in history. In his new book, journalist David Enrich unravels what went down. (2018)


Article

The Coming Meltdown in College Education

Mark Cuban, 2012: "Its far too easy to borrow money for college. Did you know that there is more outstanding debt for student loans than there is... (2017)


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Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?

Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)


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Investment Analyst Explains Margin Call

Margin Call is a movie on how investment banks reacted to the impending collapse of the US real estate market in 2008, but like other finance films... (2022)


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Game of Theories: The Great Recession - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)


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Understanding the Great Depression - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)


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The Great Recession - the failure of financial intermediaries - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Aug 9, 2016 There’s already been much discussion over what fueled the Great Recession of 2008. In t... (2018)


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Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast

Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)


Podcast

Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)


Podcast

A match made at Bear Stearns - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)


Podcast

2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts

NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)


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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)


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