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We're adding a new category: "Debts: student, national and otherwise." We've discussed many aspects of debt here at New APPS, theoretical and practical; it's time for it to have its own category as we struggle against a "generation of debt."[UPDATE: as if on cue, here's Rortybomb on "Reinventing debtor's prisons for the 21st Century." H/T Aaron Bady, who writes here of the one-day Dec 12 Oakland port shutdown.]