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Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2019-05-09

Books mentioned on 377. The $1.5 Trillion Question-How to fix student loan debt?

1 book · With Mitch Daniels · Listen

As the cost of college skyrocketed, it created a debt burden that’s putting a drag on the economy. One possible solution: shifting the risk of debt away from students and onto investors looking for a cut of the graduates’ earning power.

Stephen Dubner discussed Keeping the Republic by Mitch Daniels.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Keeping the Republic

    Mitch Daniels · at 42:41

    Discussed
    “in your book Keeping the Republic Saving America by Trusting Americans you wrote the following large majorities of Americans are clueless about their own history and the history of past fallen empires encouraged on every side to think of themselves as victims of an unfair system and their countries nothing special they react to economic adversity not with a bootstraps”
    Stephen Dubner 377. The $1.5 Trillion Question-How to fix student loan debt? 2019-05-09
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