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Debt is everywhere, and its demands are boundless—debt demands repayment, of course, and it typically demands interest on top of that. But debt’s visible and obvious demands are just the beginning. Debt’s sticky, spidery web demands, as well, fear and anxiety, distrust and dishonesty, guilt and shame—it demands insecurity and precariousness. The demands are financial, of course, and personal, but also psychological, cultural, political, and existential. We’ re joined by Kristin Collier, author of What Debt Demands:Family Betrayal and Precarity in a Broken System, part memoir and part research from the ground—a compelling journey through the matrix that debt has woven, and a vision of what it would mean to be bound to one another rather than to the state or to the banks.