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I’m really scared.

I’m afraid for our future. If you’re in your 20′s or 30′s you probably get what I mean on some level. 

A reality TV show “star” is running for president. Hillary will keep things status quo. Bernie gives me a lot of hope, but congress is where the focus really needs to be. 

Some of us are buying into the reality TV show, part of us likes the idea of capitalism because it feels good; temporarily; and some of us are annihilating ourselves on drugs and alcohol because on some level we viscerally know there’s no future for us unless we’re willing to make a big change...

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What would it cost to make college free in the U.S.?

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Andrew Ross & Strike Debt will be in Hollywood on July 19!

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Andrew Ross discusses Creditocracy on the Redeye Collective podcast.

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Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy, discusses labor on the "Belabored" podcast at Dissent magazine.

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"Elected officials have not been able to provide debt relief and so people must take debt relief for themselves, by any means necessary, but primarily in the form of economic disobedience."

Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy, discusses student loan debt and the need for a mass movement.

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Let's be clear about one thing. The inability to put "banksters" behind bars has nothing to do with the market's invisible hand or the mental superiority of the quantitative analysts who create algorithms for the supercomputers. Rather, it is a blunt reflection of the power of the creditor class to hold elected officials in thrall.

Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy, reviews Flash Boys by Michael Lewis in The Guardian

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Debts are, quite literally, the wages of the future.

Andrew Ross discusses Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal, wage theft, permanent debt, and democracy at Al Jazeera America.