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The Jubilee Option: Just Forgive

December 13, 2019 • Sam Rohrer, William Parker

Elizabeth Warren has said that if elected, she’d cancel the $1.6 Billion of student debt. Bernie Sanders said he’d go even further and erase the entire $81 Billion in medical debt. In the Bible this concept is known as Jubilee. From a purely financial perspective, how would something like this actually work? Who would get stuck? Who wins?