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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by jldugger on Saturday August 25, 2018 @09:45PM (#17843743)
> If X% of people default then you have to increase interest rates to cover the people that default.

Your borrowers can always default, even without bankruptcy protections. It's a good policy, I assume, but I'm not sure it's strictly speaking, part of the free market dogma.

Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by akvadrako on Sunday August 26, 2018 @04:32AM (#17844927)
They can't default because of government interference. I don't think anyone was talking about protections.