#Loans

Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA

GRDecter

The PayPal Mafia is at it again raising $1.2B for a "heavily oversubscribed" IPO of #AFFIRM at $15B valuation. Time for a thread 1) Consumer Credit. The backbone of

Dr Captain Barf, PhD 😏

barf_captain

Conservatives are going to lose on the student loan issue because Caveat Emptor Capitalism is deeply unpopular. People don't feel they should have to learn technical language and read fine

American Propagandist

ArmyStrang

One thing about the flippant suggestion of joining the military to pay for school is that many people aren't privileged enough to be able to joinThat's right, there's Enlistment privilege.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC

Today is a great day to call your representative and ask what their stance on student loan forgiveness is! And if you know & appreciate your rep’s stance on this

Tola

adetolaov

Quick observations for fintech businesses/digital banks from financial results of Monzo, Revolut & StarlingLesson 1: LENDING HURTS. Starling earned 2.1m from interest but has 2.2m in bad loans. Monzo has

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

A thread on my @ChathamHouse research report coauthored with @ShaharHameiri:"Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative."It contains detailed case studies of #

Total Pronoun Anarchy

GreyWays

I've been trying to figure out how to word something that's been bothering me about how every time someone brings up poverty in relation to racist movements, people shout 'Being

Noam Brown

polynoamial

This generated more discussion than I expected, so here's a thread on why working before grad school is a good idea. (0/9)https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1348639479041552388 1) PhD program dropout rates are high: 30-50%.

Sieva Kozinsky

SievaKozinsky

I have to be honest, as we’ve built Enduring Ventures we’ve done both bad due diligence, and we’ve done good DD.It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster, but we’ve learned

#MissingHugs Shaheeda Abdul Kader

saq3

$BTC becomes a “real” asset when banks start lending “real” dollars against your BTC assets. You won’t sell BTC to get dollars cos hello, why would you sell an appreciating

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

While we tend to look at these issues as the consequence of micro-level decision-making, it is important to understand the macro constraints that drive the process. If Covid-19 has caused

Matt Chingos

chingos

Should President Biden cancel student debt through executive action? I've read smart folks weigh in on both sides of this question, so I thought a quick thread of pros/cons might

David Arkush

David_Arkush

A few thoughts on the House Republican arguing that the Fed shouldn’t incorporate climate into stress tests. /1 Industry sees the writing on the wall. It’s obvious that "safety and

Dr. Sandra Steingraber

ssteingraber1

Radicalized at 29 when beaten unconscious by a police officer while reporting for @michigandaily after objecting to beating and arrest of the Black reporter next to me and then being

Laura Marston

Kidfears99

Let’s discuss how I’m “privileged” enough to have health insurance and what I’ve sacrificed to get here. At 18, I wanted to go into IT. But in the 1990s, it

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9We're in the worst recession since the Great Depression, but the S&P 500 is within striking distance of its ALL TIME HIGH. 25 years ago, as a young reporter, I’d

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