The US is having a conversation about whether so many young people really need to be going to college.
Or whether options like trade school and apprenticeships offer just as good a future with often much less debt.
Unfortunately,
we're having this conversation too late for the estimated 42 or 43 million people who hold student loan debt,
more than 5 million of whom are in default,
and who, as of next month,
may see the federal government begin to garnish their wages while they're just trying to live.
Thank goodness I don't have kids.
I mean, I love kids, but there's no way.
No way I could pay on my student loans, pay my rent.
Every year,
hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics show,
and they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.
This week on The Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES,
from the TVs to the AI gadgets to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might someday do your laundry and wash your dishes.
All that and much more on The Vergecast, wherever you get podcasts.
What are the top 10 global risks we should be thinking about for 2026?
Long term,
you are giving away the store to countries that operate more effectively in the law of the jungle.
I'm Preet Bharara, and this week Ian Bremmer, founder and president of the Eurasia Group,