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Gabe Rubin

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3 years

A bit of personal news: today's my first day as a national economics reporter for @WSJ . I'll also be covering student debt. With great sadness, I will begin to unfollow many of the finest political minds this site has to offer.

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@perlberg @NickRiccardi Naval Observatory Hanukkah party is the hottest ticket in dc

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The most reliable tool Chicago-area sports camp counselors possess for use on interminable rainy summer afternoons

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2 years

In 1971 ABC's Movie of the Week “Brian’s Song” aired starring Billy Dee Williams and James Caan — based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. Rest In Peace, James Caan.

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@rickhasen Indeed, they do not

Trump Lawyers Get Little Backup From Their Firms or Universities

Chapman University becomes the latest organization to formally distance itself from President Trump’s quixotic legal efforts to challenge the results of November’s election.

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@bencasselman And I thought my year was off to a bad start when I missed the AEA reporter dinner because of norovirus. Little did I know….

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@JoannaStern Joanna, please, we’ll die

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@Boghosian @Bakkt Regulators have concerns that I reported on here:

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Scoop: A private memo by Obama's top Education Dept. lawyer says that broad student loan forgiveness by executive action is legally risky: "the Executive Branch likely does not have the unilateral authority to engage in mass student debt cancellation"

WSJ News Exclusive | Mass Student Debt Cancellation Legally Risky, Says Top Obama Education Lawyer

In a confidential memo, a former Education Department general counsel warned it is “doubtful” courts would accept President Biden canceling debt for all student borrowers.

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4 years

@bykowicz @JessicaHuseman @nixonron I personally wait for the Tennessee Valley Authority to call it

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9 months

We write about inflation all the time. Did @NewsCorp think we wouldn't notice that they've cut the median @IAPE1096 member's real salary by 7% since 2019? $NWSA #IAPEStrong

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@HeerJeet Greil Marcus' Invisible Republic or Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks

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2 years

The emergency vehicles keep streaming up Connecticut to Van Ness. Certainly more than a hundred cop cars-- MPD, Secret Service, and unmarked; upwards of a dozen EMS vehicles; and then several scary looking SWAT/APC-style vehicles. Multiple cars per minute for the past hour-plus

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@RosieGray Chunnel Championship

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@vtg2 Writing about swaps for a general audience nearly killed me

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Nearly just took two melatonin instead of ibuprofen and boy this day almost took a turn

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@mattyglesias Even Polanski got back in the game!

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@aduehren This is really priceless content

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@nataliewsj The attempt at crowdfunding to pay the band not to play is a quintessentially WSJ detail too

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@MattZeitlin Flanders' parents still successfully come across as art school types with a Montessori parenting style, even if their Beatnik essence/language is less recognizable

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@sam_a_bell More importantly, where will Bibi do his laundry?

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2 years

Was thinking about this exact topic while watching the NBA Playoffs hosted at FTX Arena in Miami, whose naming rights cost $135 million over 19 years .

Home of Miami Heat Officially Renamed as FTX Arena

The home of the Miami Heat officially became the FTX Arena on Friday.

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2 years

Topic for an NBER paper: add up all the rents generated by crypto (superbowl ads, transaction fees, bitcoin conferences, IPO commissions, programmer salaries, lobbying fees, value of time spent trading & hawking crypto) and compare to actual commercial value.

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@lmigaki I have an all-consuming compulsion to make all my dentist appointments for 2:30, even when it isn't convenient. I don't think I've had a non-2:30 one in years. Please send help

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@KateDavidson Caffeine hiatuses, like rate hike campaigns, continue until something breaks

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@Shayndi @dyweiss1 Does he send anything to the 11th? Fruit basket? Sponsor kiddush at the ufruf?

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3 years

Sec. Clinton reads Washington Wire, and so should you!

Hillary Clinton

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3 years

Flip the Senate, save the Post Office.

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@natechinen "This lady can take your kidney, but I can free your mind"

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@JacobMagid You don't cover Congress regularly I see

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@rudnicknoah bILl Foster

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@mattyglesias You don't have to be a NIMBY to recognize that the Adams Morgan situation is different. There were performances there, there was weekly farmers market, people sat there-- it just WAS a plaza, unlike the Masonic Temple situation, which was clearly just the Temple backyard

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@jbouie His death is barely less important to the demise of Reconstruction than election of ‘76, imo

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@nataliewsj This is incredible

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@MHackman They’re classics but they get less attention than Beloved and Song of Solomon: Jazz and Sula by Toni Morrison. Recently read both for the first time, could not recommend more highly

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@SopanDeb I think it happens during times of major change, especially-- like, the IST boosted December NBA ratings, and the pitch clock/shorter games have boosted MLB ratings (at least so far)

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@YaronWeitzman I primarily remember him as being the slowest player imaginable in NBA Live 2000

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I interviewed the CEO of Manischewitz on the field at the Miami Marlins' stadium after he threw out the first pitch on Passover. He gave me an amazing quote about wanting to give out jars of gefilte fish to the first 10,000 fans.

Baseball Rules Are Complicated Enough, Now Add Passover

Keeping kosher during the holiday means hot dogs and beer are out of bounds for observant baseball fans; charoset not Cracker Jack.

www.wsj.com

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2 years

Journalists: where is the weirdest place you've conducted an interview or filed a story?

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I’m on today’s The Journal podcast talking student debt and Biden’s approach to the issue

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3 years

@amacker Fine, then area children can send their pieces over to dad’s area coworker

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@juliaioffe The monologues of the grieving mothers in Zinky Boys who aren't allowed to say that their sons died in Afghanistan are some of the most tragic sentences I've ever read

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2 years

That classic Shmini Atzeret travel bump, bigger than Christmas or Memorial Day

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2 years

* U.S. SCREENED 2.495 MILLION AIR PASSENGERS ON SUNDAY, HIGHEST NUMBER SINCE FEBRUARY 2020 - TSA $XAL @TSA

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@ENBrown Keep the jungle.

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If you're not in-cycle, October of an election year must be a pretty sweet time to be a senator

Senate Cloakroom

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2 years

Vote Forecast: Leader Schumer announced that the next roll call vote will occur on Monday, November 14th at 5:30pm.

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@drvolts There's been a lot of good reporting on how carbon capture biproducts could be used for green cement, but I'd love to get a sense of whether that shift is actually happening, or if it's just a couple media-savvy companies doing demo projects.

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@pbump "I like the mysterious disappearance of Archimboldi and the love triangles it prompts!"

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2Q and 3Q numbers will be extremely interesting to see, given that these huge jumps mostly happened BEFORE the runup in oil prices (war started Feb 24)

Nat Bullard

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US share of new light-duty registrations: Hybrid 1Q 2020: 3.21% 1Q 2021: 5.71% 1Q 2022: 7.57% Pure electric: 1Q 2020: 2.17% 1Q 2021: 2.77% 1Q 2022: 5.11% So, 1/8th of US new sales now with a battery, and 1/20th with only a battery

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@sewellchan They get dressed and do the colonnade walk to the Oval, so that’s already following a lot of the WFH advice the rest of us should be following

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NEW: Biden hasn't come to a decision on student debt cancellation as he weighs the economic and political ramifications, from @AndrewRestuccia and me

WSJ News Exclusive | Biden Decision on Student-Loan Forgiveness Unlikely Until Later in Summer,...

The president had said he was near a decision, but the administration continues to weigh the political and economic fallout of any moves.

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2 years

It’s becoming increasingly likely that there will be a giant student debt cancellation legal standoff weeks or even days before the election— new this morning:

Legal Challenges to Student Loan Forgiveness Loom Before Midterms

GOP lawmakers and conservative groups are laying the groundwork for court battles to block Biden’s executive action.

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1 year

And now for my most pedantic opinion of all time: I think bbref should wait until induction to put this tag on, rather than election. You're not president until Inauguration Day!

Baseball Reference

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Scott Rolen: Hall of Famer. ⚾️ #MLB | #HOF2023

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This is an incredibly beautiful story-- both the content and the writing. Thanks @liamstack

Many Jewish World War II Soldiers Had Christian Burials. That’s Changing. (Published 2022)

Descendants of soldiers are holding rededication ceremonies in Europe to honor their ancestors’ Jewish heritage.

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@ByronTau Does no one ever learn from the Streisand Effect

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@NeerajKA Man this one is too soon

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@fivefifths Gonna offer Nancy half-price breadsticks in exchange for The Wall

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2 years

Stick with what works: banks, insurance, airlines, beer, and.....Smoothie King

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2 years

Lotta stadiums getting renamed in the next few years

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@Yair_Rosenberg @tabletmag When I interviewed Manischewitz CEO David Sugarman after he threw out the first pitch at a Marlins game last Pesach, he suggested giving out gefilte fish to the first 10,000 fans as a Pesach promotion

Baseball Rules Are Complicated Enough, Now Add Passover

Keeping kosher during the holiday means hot dogs and beer are out of bounds for observant baseball fans; charoset not Cracker Jack.

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@aedwardslevy True, you can't really dip muenster in....refried beans with pico de gallo and cougar paw

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@MattZeitlin Isn't that just one change, then? And presumably based on C and D's data, non-college mortality would be even higher since the group would be more weighted towards those without a HS diploma

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@HeerJeet It's 600, not 6,000.

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@RichardRubinDC @lindsaywise I almost sent you one of these emails before remembering that I, too, can read the bill

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@alexrossmusic Just finished it and loved every page. A better cultural/intellectual history you will not find (though I liked The Rest is Noise, too)

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@gonzo3249 @skennedy88 @DylanExaminer I was hoping the second Highway 61 one would be more interesting but then saw it was that he hasn’t played Like a Rolling Stone in a couple years. (Still love Tony on double bass)

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@fivefifths De whet (??) penta

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@DannyDougherty I'd be totally happy with a "Hall of Fame-Elect" tag

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@burgessev @SteveDaines @SenWarren @JohnCornyn Cotton has 50-foot strides

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@sam_a_bell I assume the bad-faith criticisms of him being a hypocrite for having an expensive coat have quieted because he clearly only owns one coat

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2 years

Getting a laugh while also asking a great question, well done @NickTimiraos

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"If the pilot tells me 'We're going to have a softish landing,'" @NickTimiraos says, "I don't know, I start to wonder what he's talking about." Powell says, you know, you fly around, sometimes it gets a little bumpy.

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@ByronTau The home run derby idea, which I guess is baseball's version of a hockey/soccer shootout, is probably the most disruptive change that also has the highest upside. Or, sure, they can play t-ball off the batboy's head for an inning

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NEW from me and @AndrewRestuccia : amid Biden's period of indecision on student loans, over 100 D senators and reps are asking him to extend the freeze on student loan payments, set to expire at the end of August

WSJ News Exclusive | Democratic Lawmakers Ask Biden to Extend Student Loan Payment Pause

More than 100 Democratic senators and U.S. House members sent a letter to President Biden urging him to renew the pandemic pause on student loan payments, citing continued economic difficulties for...

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@robinsonmeyer I don't understand why they teased this but didn't put it immediately into production:

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@_richjohnson It was embargoed for 8:45am

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Maybe now MARC will run more than three trains on the weekend

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Beltway news: Amtrak says a new Baltimore tunnel when completed will "reduce trip time between Washington to Baltimore to less than 30 minutes"

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@danielnasaw @Maddie_Marshall guys, please, it's JULY. (Related: if it's a Christmas movie, then why was it released in July? 🤔)

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@gonzo3249 @Pod_Dylan @harryhew @DefDylan @suemyassoff @skennedy88 @bobdylan My local ones don’t go on sale until Friday, so I’ve got a few more calm days until then

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@JessicaHuseman bube toob

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New addition to the Wrigley Field organist's repertoire: Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk.

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@ByronTau @danielnasaw If you hadn't limited this to studio albums, I might have chosen Bootleg vol. 8, which has a great version of Most of the Time

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@georgia_wells @RichardRubinDC My other personal favorite is when @jacobbunge writes articles about Bunge, the agribusiness giant

Bunge May Sell Assets to Improve Profits

Bunge is reviewing its businesses and may sell assets to improve profits at a volatile time for agricultural markets.The company, which reported a wider quarterly loss, was hurt by a drop in soybean...

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@HowardMortman Howard, I have never seen a more obvious Minor Memo than this...

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@ditzkoff 🎼Mars angel, Mars aaaaangellll 🎼

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@natechinen @SoWhatsNextEHV @ElliottBayBooks @PantheonBooks @VintageAnchor It's a terrific book, Nate, and it was great to see you on that tour-- keep updating the Spotify playlist, too!

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@peteschroeder John Stumpf?

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@nataliewsj Every week our weekend takeout plans become Thursday takeout plans.

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@vtg2 Totally agree— like, read the room!

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How did Mark Twain find the time to write books when he was pumping out like 20 instant classic quotes about fools and foolery every day

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APRIL FOOLS’ DAY: “This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” —Mark Twain

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@Noahpinion Yes, but as of last year, the Lincoln Park Pirates are no more!

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@JWPascale The hours used to vary seasonally-- in the summer I think it closed at 8?

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@bpmena @UTEP @WSJ Looking forward to meeting you/working with you!

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@RichardRubinDC To-go cocktails, virtual notaries, 7-inning doubleheader games.

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@aedwardslevy In the third one, do we think those are lightly-braised slices of Muenster or jumbo-sized Stacy’s Pita Chips?

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@HowardMortman @VP Coming to a WashWire near you

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@RichardRubinDC and I have heard your plea for a guide to the incomprehensible situation on the Hill right now, and we hope we have cleared some of it up (not the policy. Just the weird words and acronyms)

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It's interesting that Manchin waited this long to comment on debt cancellation, especially given its reliance on the IRA's deficit reduction to "pay" for it. And for a Manchin critique, this is pretty muted-- he even pivoted to talking about helping constituents with PSLF!

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Manchin calls Biden’s decision to cancel student loans “excessive.” “I just think there’s a better way to do it. You have to earn it.”

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@benpershing Faux shrimp cocktail shows up at the occasional bar mitzvah

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@SabrinaSiddiqui @joshjame @dnvolz I have a neighbor who's still looking for missing Kerry provisionals in Cuyahoga County

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@BCDreyer In fairness, the man put a door in the wrong place and threatened the structural integrity of the whole hotel

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@KateDavidson They were playing Mos Def for a few minutes there! Really strange to be looking at muted footage of David Rubenstein eating lunch with that soundtrack

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With barely more than a month before payments are scheduled to resume, student loan servicers still haven't gotten the signal from the Education Department to send billing notices to customers-- or to tell them that the freeze is being extended

Student Loan Servicers Told to Hold Off on Sending Billing Statements

The future of the federal student loan portfolio is in limbo as President Biden considers whether to cancel a limited amount of debt for borrowers whose incomes fall under a certain threshold.

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@sid_ravishankar @WSJ @WUPR On the contrary, a natural progression! Thanks Sid

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@lmigaki If you're wearing crocs, you're almost assuredly at home and self-isolating, and that's heroic

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