Gotta spin that narrative of irresponsible kids spending money recklessly tho

The bottom of that “study” is all you need to know about that study:

To better understand how a student loan payment shock may impact a consumer wallet, lenders can leverage TruVision Premium Student Loan Attributes, TruVision Trended Usage Payment Ratio Algorithms and TruVision Trended Liquidity Algorithms.

All that shit was basically just an ad to sell products to financial analysts. CNBC took the bait and advertised the products for them.

It’s not just 20-somethings. I’m 50 and still have $53k in student loan debt.

Yeah I struggled to find anything in the article or linked citations that debt was added, only cards. There was a bit about mortgages and loans but I don't know how that compares to normal YOY to know if it really means anything.

Don't forget pointing at them for the rest of their lives and condemning them for the crime of "making bad decisions" ie trying to better themselves and prepare themselves for a fulfilling vocation that either doesn't exist or pays poverty wages (teachers, paramedics, counselors, etc, stuff decent societies actually value) in the US, all to drink in that sweet, sweet schadenfreude of the suffering of your fellow citizens.

The oligarchs used their bully pulpit of all major media that they own to train us to undermine one another, compete against one another, and root against one another so we'd never unite against our common enemy, them. This is merely the result of that, all the peasants blind after stabbing each other's eyes out, with the owners looking down at their livestock and laughing.

Right? I have yet to hear any of these "patriots" mention the national issue of no longer being able to compete on the world stage because American students can't afford to be students anymore... or to, you know, just live.

Housing, education, cost of living are shameful. Richest country in the world and it's all sitting at the top permanently out of reach. I'm highly educated, and I still just want to shut down constantly.

Or at least teach teenagers how it works. Interest too. Oh, and while we’re at it, taxes.

When your life is already irrevocably fucked for listening to what you're told for 18 years and attempting to better yourself by pursuing a vocation you're passionate about, in a country that doesn't value the most important professions like teaching, you can eat saltines in a rented room and wait to die while your fellow Americans insult you for "making bad decisions," or you can buy a nice thing with a credit card and then continue to eat saltines in a rented room waiting to die while your fellow Americans insult you.

At least with the latter you have a nice thing to die with. Sure as shit won't get any "nice" from your fellow Americans who gain pleasure from your misery.

I think it has more to do with why student loans were paused, the pandemic. Think of the number of people who lost their jobs and what the job market looks like now.

The first rule of financial literacy is

Not taught to most Americans, unfortunately.

The article doesn't go into how much debt anyone took on nor if anyone factored in student loans before taking on more debt.

Should it, in theory yes. Did it, according to this article no.