McCartney: Yoko Didn't Break Up the Beatles — John Lennon was going to leave anyway, Paul says All those years you’ve harbored a grudge against Yoko Ono for breaking up the Beatles … and now it turns out you can let it go. "She certainly didn't break the group up," Paul McCartney says in a new TV interview set to air next month, the BBC reports. "I don't think you can blame her for anything.” John Lennon, he adds, was “definitely going to leave.” Plus, Ono inspired Lennon to write such hits as “Imagine,” McCartney says."When Yoko came along, part of her attraction was her avant garde side, her view of things," he says. "She showed him another way to be, which was very attractive to him. So it was time for John to leave."
Educated Americans Have More Debt Woes
Think highly educated Americans came out better in the 2008 financial crash? According to two new studies, those with college degrees actually took on more unmanageable debt than other Americans, reports Time. "People with college educations may have thought they were immune to any economic problems," says Sherman Hanna, who co-authored the research. "But when people stop believing things might go bad, that’s when they get in trouble." Researchers drew the line of "unmanageable debt" at the point where monthly household debt payments equaled 40% of income. More than one in four Americans crossed that line in 2008, up from 17% in 1992—and highly educated people were more likely to be among them. What's more, 35% of renters were in that group compared to just 21% of homeowners, showing "that the financial crisis wasn’t all about housing speculation," says Hanna. "There was too much debt in all parts of the economy.”
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