One blogger makes a case for it: Jubilee means the forgiveness of debt, but can the principle of Jubilee debt forgiveness be applied to our current economic situation? Yes, it
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ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Credit: Lotus Head Michael Hudson teaches us: As the practice was privatized by royal collectors of user fees and rents, “divine kingship” protected agrarian debtors. Hammurabi’s laws
Thomas Hosmer Shepherd David Graeber explains: Since antiquity the worst-case scenario that everyone felt would lead to total social breakdown was a major debt crisis; ordinary people would become so
Robert Reich writes that Washington is obsessed with the wrong question(s) concerning the country’s debt crisis and offers a figurative