Planet-Spanning IOUs: How Student Debt Became the World’s Shared Horror Story
In a modest apartment in Nairobi, Kevin Mwangi pores over his accounting ledger, wondering how the $30,000 he borrowed from a London-based lender to study data science in Manchester has ballooned into something resembling the GDP of a micronation. Meanwhile, in São Paulo, Mariana Andrade contemplates whether her monthly Brazilian-real payment on a U.S. dollar-denominated…