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Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the company raised $6B in December from a16z and others (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-raises-10-billion-debt-equi…

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10 Billion in Debt, Equity
Elon Musk’s xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions. “The combination of debt and equity reduces the overall cost of capital and substantially expands pools of capital available to xAI,” Morgan Stanley wrote in a post on X , which did not name any investors in the debt or equity. XAI raised $6

The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How #VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing #OpenSource, One Repository at a Time

Trump's Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-tariffs-how-much-money-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p4#a250803p4

AMC Entertainment reaches an agreement with creditors to reduce debt, including raising ~$223.3M and converting $143M of debt into equity; AMC falls ~6% (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

Senate Republicans seek to vote on Trump’s massive tax bill Monday

The Senate version of the bill would cause the national debt to soar by $3 trillion,
-- even more than previous estimates,
according to newly released projections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/p…

Senate rushes to pass Trump’s tax bill, as cost tops $3 trillion
The legislation would cause the national debt to soar even more than previous estimates, according to new projections released Sunday.

Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in debt for xAI at a double-digit interest rate, with demand already exceeding $3.5B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-02/musk-s-xai-launches-5-billion-deb…

@… I love the idea that doing the hard thing (but the right thing) builds *momentum* instead of tech debt

On growth.
The UK is still fixed in a view that in order to reduce debt, take care of an aging and medicated population and provide as high a standard of living as possible and the Govt to get re-elected.
But that is neither true nor practical. The only things that would stimulate the UK economy are a generationally large investment in infrastructure (both physical and electronic) or a similar size war.
HS2 shows we can't do the former and we're scaled for police act…

What a huge bunch of gaping assholes. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lsw3zs7e7s2b

If there’s an #email response you’ve wanted to send but been too anxious to send,
you can send it TODAY:
Celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day!
https://emaildebtforgiveness.me/

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/bjLUZOG
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Primitive Impulse:
🎵 Your Debt
#PrimitiveImpulse

Spinwheel, which helps fintech companies and banks authenticate users, automate data retrieval, and facilitate payments, raised a $30M Series A led by F-Prime (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/23/spinwheel-3…

Exclusive: Spinwheel raises $30M to streamline debt management
Debt management remains fragmented and difficult to connect

Trump bill live updates: Musk warns ‘Porky Pig Party’ of debt slavery as Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ heads to late night | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-big-beautiful-bill-latest-news-b2779367.html

If you think there might be an AI bubble, but don't worry, even if it pops, how bad can it be?
Here's one number: seven tech companies (NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Tesla, Amazon) are worth ~20 trillion, ⇓ of total US stock market
For context: total subprime mortgages in 2008 were 1.3 trillion, total US mortgage debt 10 trillion
You have a 401k or index fonds? Your money is likely tied with the AI market. If you want that, that's fine. If you're …

Senate Bill Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/senate-bill-trump-cbo-score-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p49#a250629p49

Technical debt to society
Technical debtor's prisons

$3.3 trillion of debt being handed to future generations to make billionaires richer.
Higher cost of living, drained government benefits & fewer economic opportunities on the world stage...
...for our kids.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ibal

About 5.8 million federal student loan borrowers
– roughly 31%
– were 90 days or more past due on their payments as of April 2025,
according to analysis from TransUnion,
as delinquency and default rates soar in the wake of pandemic-era repayment relief ending.
⚠️US federal student loan debt is worth almost $1.7 Trillion
💥with 42.7 million people owing some form of federal loan debt.
👉And in May, the Trump administration resumed collecting on default…

Cinven acquires a majority stake in Smart Communications from Accel-KKR; sources: the deal values the customer conversations platform at ~$1.8B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/cinven…

The Technical Debt Gamble: A Case Study on Technical Debt in a Large-Scale Industrial Microservice Architecture
Klara Borowa, Andrzej Ratkowski, Roberto Verdecchia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16214

The Technical Debt Gamble: A Case Study on Technical Debt in a Large-Scale Industrial Microservice Architecture
Microservice architectures provide an intuitive promise of high maintainability and evolvability due to loose coupling. However, these quality attributes are notably vulnerable to technical debt (TD). Few studies address TD in microservice systems, particularly on a large scale. This research explores how TD manifests in a large-scale microservice-based industrial system. The research is based on a mixed-method case study of a project including over 100 microservices and serving over 15k locati…

Marshall says he believes Trump megabill 'will help shrink the debt' (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5376003-senator-marshall-defends-trump-debt-limit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p63#a250629p63

Growing Mathlib: maintenance of a large scale mathematical library
Anne Baanen, Matthew Robert Ballard, Johan Commelin, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Michael Rothgang, Damiano Testa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21593

Growing Mathlib: maintenance of a large scale mathematical library
The Lean mathematical library Mathlib is one of the fastest-growing libraries of formalised mathematics. We describe various strategies to manage this growth, while allowing for change and avoiding maintainer overload. This includes dealing with breaking changes via a deprecation system, using code quality analysis tools (linters) to provide direct user feedback about common pitfalls, speeding up compilation times through conscious library (re-)design, dealing with technical debt as well as wri…

CEO says they can only win on the experience. And yet every action they roll out makes it less and less possible for a professional to go in there and interact with someone knowledgeable.
https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/guitar-center-three-year-d…

Guitar Center secures three-year debt extension to ensure it can deliver on its business plan
The announcement comes amid increasing challenges for brick-and-mortar guitar stores and ongoing changes at Guitar Center to battle competition from digital retailers

This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law -- Senate Republicans hope to pass their mega-trillion-dollar spending law this morning. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-shameful-way-to-make-law-trump-republicans-senate-congress-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-spending-debt-deficit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p35#a250701p35

US Treasury's Bessent Extends Measures to Avoid Debt Ceiling Breach | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-treasury-bessent-debt-ceiling/2025/06/25/id/1216502/

The Republican shell game on tax cuts
Republicans continue to profess deep concern about the federal debt -- even as their top priority is to pass a bill that will increase it by trillions of dollars.
They have multiple rationalizations for this behavior,
which might work psychologically but do not mathematically.

Thus they claim that the deficit reflects runaway spending rather than insufficient revenue
and that reducing that revenue is therefore nothing to w…

The Republican shell game on tax cuts
Expiring tax cuts are yesterday’s news for deficit scorekeepers, but an exciting new policy in campaign pitches.

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/

Rethinking Indonesia's Public Debt in the Era of Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials
Mervin Goklas Hamonangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18092 https://

Rethinking Indonesia's Public Debt in the Era of Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials
This study contributes to the discussion about how higher public debt may not be costly because of the negative interest rate-growth differentials by simulating OLG models introduced by Blanchard (2019) under uncertainty, showing debt and welfare dynamics in two scenarios: intergenerational transfers and debt rollovers in the case of Indonesia. The simulation is done by modifying the model parameters based on interest rate-growth differentials historic data from 2004-2019. It is found that the …

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
Ethan Buchman, Paolo Dini, Shoaib Ahmed, Andrew Miller, Toma\v{z} Fleischman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22309 https://…

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
For centuries, financial institutions have responded to liquidity challenges by forming closed, centralized clearing clubs with strict rules and membership that allow them to collaborate on using the least money to discharge the most debt. As closed clubs, much of the general public has been excluded from participation. But the vast majority of private sector actors consists of micro or small firms that are vulnerable to late payments and generally ineligible for bank loans. This low liquidity …

Finally some good news!
The sentencing judge imposed a 12-month good behaviour bond and described his offending as having occurred in "extenuating circumstances"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-28/ato-whistleblower-richard-boyle-…

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle spared convictions, jail sentence
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle has avoided convictions and a jail sentence, seven years after publicly exposing aggressive debt collection practices at the tax office.

US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-3…

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

A group of Democratic senators is demanding answers from the Department of Education
on its decision to renege on its obligation to 3 million student loan borrowers enrolled in the
"Income-Based Repayment program",
which forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments, which typically takes about 25 years.

Lawmakers Slam DOE for Suspending 3 Million Borrowers’ Student Loan Forgiveness
The Department of Education suspended a program that forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments.

Senate excludes trillions in debt to make ‘big, beautiful’ bill seem cheaper - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.29-005146/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/28/senate-big-beautiful-bill-cost-trump/

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the company at $800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/uNYyhKV
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Ulrike M. Graetsch, Rashina Hoda, Hourieh Khalazjadeh, Mojtaba Shahin, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18219

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Context: There is an increase in the investment and development of data-intensive (DI) solutions, systems that manage large amounts of data. Without careful management, this growing investment will also grow associated technical debt (TD). Delivery of DI solutions requires a multidisciplinary skill set, but there is limited knowledge about how multidisciplinary teams develop DI systems and manage TD. Objective: This research contributes empirical, practice based insights about multidisciplina…

Senate Republicans Wound Filibuster To Pass Debt Bomb (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-beautiful-bill-parliamentarian_n_685ab68be4b0ede248bacb32
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p77#a250630p77

I wonder how this can be leveraged in our #VFX industry.
Can you position a company as the guys who’ll fix stuff that another team messed up because they thought they can do an effects shot with Midjourney but then ended up with nothing to show once the director wanted a simple revision like turning that object a tiny bit more or making the cool explosion more „swooosh“ instead of „wooosh“?

Wissenschaftler:innen haben herausgefunden: Wer ChatGPT oder andere Bullshit-Generatoren nutzt, verblödet innerhalb kurzer Zeit.
#LLM

A Tokenized Sovereign Debt Conversion Mechanism for Dynamic Public Debt Reduction
Kiarash Firouzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00019 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A Tokenized Sovereign Debt Conversion Mechanism for Dynamic Public Debt Reduction
In this paper, we present the Tokenized Sovereign Debt Conversion Mechanism (TSDCM), a smart-contracted instrument that, upon meeting both debt-to-GDP and GDP-growth thresholds, automates the retirement of sovereign debt. TSDCM initiates the conversion of a portion of outstanding bonds into performance-linked tokens by integrating a two-state regime-switching jump-diffusion framework into decentralized protocols. We prove finite-time activation and expected debt reduction through new propositio…

🧮 CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
#scam

CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
Embarrassed and in debt, Edwin was left reeling after losing $16,000 to CryptoBridge Exchange (CBEX), one of the crypto-trading platforms preying on investors in Africa.

WBD's split is set to close in mid-2026; CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says he assumes "the majority" of WBD's ~$37B debt will exist with the spun off Global Networks (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollyw…

“Majority” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $37 Billion in Debt Will Be Spun Off With TV Networks, Its CEO Says
But “a not-insignificant portion” will remain with Streaming & Studios — and with David Zaslav.

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

Tariffs will pay for tax cuts?
-- The White House can’t be serious.
After passing tax cuts that will likely cost $5.5 trillion over the coming decade, the Trump administration is under increasing pressure to rein in soaring budget deficits. So what’s the plan? Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently claimed on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that tariff revenue “is going to pay off our deficit.”
Administration estimates of 10-year tari…

Tariffs will pay for tax cuts? The White House can’t be serious.
Trump officials say trillions of dollars in tariff revenue will pay for their tax cuts. Don’t hold your breath.

Mark Chadbourn summarized it well on Blue sky,
Trump’s tariffs could be one of the biggest contributors to economic inequality in American history.
The money raised by them will allow Trump to achieve his aim of slashing taxes for the wealthy. Meanwhile the cost of the tariffs will be paid by working people through increased prices.

Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.
The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it.

Pink Floyd fans owe this man a debt.
https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/ronnie-rondell/

Ronnie Rondell - Honorary Unsubscribe
A stuntman, he's best known for a gag that wasn't for TV or the movies.

"LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."
Brain scans confirmed significantly fewer neural connections for LLM users
Stop using LLMs if you value your brain
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872…

btw.... Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

2025 heralds a brand new term in psychology:
Cognitive Debt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Nuri Almarimi, Banani Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15884

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Community smells reflect poor organizational practices that often lead to socio-technical issues and the accumulation of Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). While prior studies have explored these problems in general software systems, their interplay in machine learning (ML)-based projects remains largely underexamined. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of community smells and their relationship with SATD in open-source ML projects, analyzing data at the release level. First, we ex…

Here’s how Trump's health care moves will push medical bills higher : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479075/trump-medical-debt-bbb-health-insurance

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Begins Debating Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/29/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.YIoe.wCVCGaxLE54y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p69#a250629p69

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/20/blue-lights-insurmountable-debt-and-the-affordances-of-its-erasure/

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Glowing Brain:
🎵 Creeping Debt
#GlowingBrain
https://glowingbrain.bandcamp.com/track/creeping-debt
https://open.spotify.com/track/7FtJZNTxMcm9H8G2skXIij

Monetary Macro Accounting Theory
Ren\'eee Men\'endez, Viktor Winschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Monetary Macro Accounting Theory
We develop a monetary macro accounting theory (MoMaT) and its software specification for a consistent national accounting. In our money theory money functions primarily as a medium of payment for obligations and debts, not as a medium of exchange, originating from the temporal misalignment where producers pay suppliers before receiving revenue. MoMaT applies the legal principles of Separation and Abstraction to model debt, contracts, property rights, and money to understand their nature. Moneta…

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M , including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/pompliano-procap-spac-bitcoin.html…

Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows
Led by investor and podcast host Anthony Pompliano, ProCap raised more than $750 million in its funding round, including $235 million in convertible debt.

Establishing Technical Debt Management -- A Five-Step Workshop Approach and an Action Research Study
Marion Wiese, Kamila Serwa, Anastasia Besier, Ariane S. Marion-Jetten, Eva Bittner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15570

Establishing Technical Debt Management -- A Five-Step Workshop Approach and an Action Research Study
Context. Technical debt (TD) items are constructs in a software system providing short-term benefits but hindering future changes. TD management (TDM) is frequently researched but rarely adopted in practice. Goal. This study aimed to establish a TDM process in an IT company based on a predefined workshop concept. We analyzed which research approaches practitioners adopted for each TD activity and the TDM's long-term effect on TD awareness. Method. We used action research (five action cycles in …

Trump has said the quiet part out loud.
His threats to terminate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell if Powell doesn’t cut interest rates are motivated by one simple desire:
to make it cheaper for the administration to add about
$4 trillion to the federal debt.
https://www.

The real reason Trump wants to fire the Fed chair
The president wants to reduce the debt service on the trillions his mega-bill will add to the national debt.

Four stories that are more important than the Epstein Files (Bryan Walsh/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/421254/jeffrey-epstein-files-donald-trump-national-debt-media
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p34#a250726p34

Prison debt is crushing Black women, advocates say
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/26/states-inmates-pay-incarceration-black-women

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/Oxk8qS6
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

New X-date gives Congress a little more time (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/congress-x-date-debt-limit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p13#a250625p13

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
Saikat Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21329 https://…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
High-quality answers in technical Q&A platforms like Stack Overflow (SO) are crucial as they directly influence software development practices. Poor-quality answers can introduce inefficiencies, bugs, and security vulnerabilities, and thus increase maintenance costs and technical debt in production software. To improve content quality, SO allows collaborative editing, where users revise answers to enhance clarity, correctness, and formatting. Several studies have examined rejected edits and ide…

Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/rent-the-…

Do Governments React to Public Debt Accumulation? A Cross-Country Analysis
Paolo Canofari, Alessandro Piergallini, Marco Tedeschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13084

Do Governments React to Public Debt Accumulation? A Cross-Country Analysis
Do governments adjust budgetary policy to rising public debt, precluding fiscal unsustainability? Using budget data for 52 industrial and emerging economies since 1990, we apply panel methods accounting for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneous fiscal conduct. We find that a primary-balance rule with tax-smoothing motives and responsiveness to debt has robust explanatory power in describing fiscal behavior. Controlling for temporary output, temporary spending, and the current account bal…

'Treadmill of death': Financial expert says Trump's economy is trapping Americans in debt - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/american-debt-treadmill-of/

Nexstar agrees to acquire Tegna for $3.54B in a deal valued at $6.2B including debt, expected to close by H2 2026; Nexstar plans to pay $22 per share (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/en/tv-broadcaster-nexstar-acquire-rival-tegna-35…

Trump voters wanted lower medical bills. But for millions, bills are about to go up (Noam Levey/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479075/trump-medical-debt-bbb-health-insurance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p16#a250725p16

Judge reverses CFPB rule erasing medical debt from credit reports
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5398381-joe-biden-medical-debt-reporting-rule-scrapped/

House Policy Bill Would Add $3.4 Trillion to Debt, Swamping Economic Gains (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/house-bill-federal-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p15#a250618p15

NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani Seeks $70 Billion of Debt to Fund Affordable Housing (Martin Z Braun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/mamdani-seeks-70-billion-of-nyc-debt-to-fund-affordable-housing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p58#a250617p58

Always interesting to see new laws in my state; note the one about how medical debt no longer shows up on our credit reports...
These new Washington laws take effect July 27 • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/25/these-new-washington-laws-take-effect-july-27/

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/651c0QD
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

ASTAGEN: Empirical Evaluation of Automated SATD Taxonomy Generation with LLMs
Sota Nakashima, Yuta Ishimoto, Masanari Kondo, Tao Xiao, Yasutaka Kamei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09601

ASTAGEN: Empirical Evaluation of Automated SATD Taxonomy Generation with LLMs
Technical debt refers to suboptimal code that degrades software quality. When developers intentionally introduce such debt, it is called self-admitted technical debt (SATD). Since SATD hinders maintenance, identifying its categories is key to uncovering quality issues. Traditionally, constructing such taxonomies requires manually inspecting SATD comments and surrounding code, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often inconsistent due to annotator subjectivity. This study presents ASTA…

Federal judge reverses a CFPB rule to strip medical debt from credit reports. Here's what it means. (Aimee Picchi/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-reverses-medical-debt-rule-credit-reports-cfpb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p75#a250715p75

US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Prison debt is crushing Black women, advocates say (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/26/states-inmates-pay-incarceration-black-women
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p49#a250726p49

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

The petrodollar, not GOP fiscal restraint, is what sustains our unsustainable debt
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5465671-republican-fiscal-responsibility-illusion/

The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

Fears over US debt load and inflation ignite exodus from long-term bonds (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/75a4acf6-b3fa-4a90-8b4e-4c0724afd407
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p31#a250626p31

Security Debt in Practice: Nuanced Insights from Practitioners
Chaima Boufaied, Taher Ghaleb, Zainab Masood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11362 https://

Security Debt in Practice: Nuanced Insights from Practitioners
With the increasing reliance on software and automation nowadays, tight deadlines, limited resources, and prioritization of functionality over security can lead to insecure coding practices. When not handled properly, these constraints cause unaddressed security vulnerabilities to accumulate over time, forming Security Debts (SDs). Despite their critical importance, there is limited empirical evidence on how software practitioners perceive, manage, and communicate SDs in real-world settings. In…

Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/57d5b733-9060-44fe-94c3-41a600ebb079

Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump muddies xAI debt raising for Morgan Stanley
Bank was close to lining up $5bn for artificial intelligence group when US president and billionaire attacked each other

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

What sickens me is that he always gets what he wants.
He wanted a big wasteful parade and got one.
He wanted to pave over the Rose Garden: done.
Build tent cities to detain immigrants; done in a week.
Add a couple trillion to the debt; done.
We are being bulldozed flatter than that rose garden.
-- Donna Hook

Democrats Should Prepare for the Return of Debt Politics (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/10/democrats-should-prepare-for-the-return-of-debt-politics/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p162#a250710p162

"The credit score drop is [as bad as] filing for bankruptcy, and some borrowers are finding out when they try to get car loans or rent apartments."
Student loan missed payments causes credit score drop for millions - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/25/credit-score-student-loan-elinquency-debt/

Sources: Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise $4.3B via an equity investment on top of the $5B it has recently been trying to borrow from debt investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17…

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/galaxy-secur…

GLXY News: Galaxy Lands $1.4B for Helios Data Center Expansion as CoreWeave Commits to 800 MW
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion annual revenue over 15 years.

GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-bill-trumps-agenda-add-24-trillion-debt-budget-office-says-rcna210749
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p52#a250604p52

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Morgan Stanley: hyperscalers will fund about 50% of the $2.9T in future AI infrastructure through 2028, with debt, PE, VC, and other sources making up the rest (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/efe1e350-62c6-4aa0-a833-f6da01265473

Trump's tax and immigration bill could add $3.3 trillion to national debt, CBO finds (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/17/trump-presidency-news/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwMTMyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxNTE1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTAxMzI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImQ3YzdkNDQ0LWJjODAtNGFmOC05MzRlLTA5OGMwOTJkZDhlNyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA2LzE3L3RydW1wLXByZXNpZGVuY3ktbmV3cy8ifQ.ngukXdygnHYUZI__OXYK8qr7FNrJJLHeWY1FphbPCuY&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p123#a250617p123

Trump pushes a July 4th deadline for big tax bill as senators dig in (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-senate-gop-debt-a0679756c6af762ac0291be6cb647145
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p98#a250603p98