Fantastic, and dead-on sentiments. Enjoy the vid. Your Student Loan Shall Not Be Forgiven : The Freeman: In the world of finance, “debt forgiveness” is not the same thing as regular forgiveness, wherein the aggrieved party absolves you of guilt…
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How Does OWS Want To Be Like Big Wall Street Banks?
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Prof. Coyne makes a fantastic point, in this case OWS does not want less corruption and cronyism, they simply want more of it for themselves.
Can An Adult Not Know What It Means To Co-Sign?
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This story really bothers me. I’ve seen some headlines for it that say the woman “inherited” her son’s student loan debt. In every article I’ve seen about this story the woman is made out to be a victim. She is…
More On The Student Debt Problem
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Jeff Jacoby nails it. This recent pandering is nothing more than shoring-up the young person vote for November, promising them freebies from other people’s wallets, with horrific economic policy to sweeten the deal. [ Student Loan Forgiveness Might Be The Worst…
Student Loan Forgiveness Might Be The Worst Idea Ever
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I wrote about this a few weeks ago. Justin Wolfers of Freakonomics takes a look, the post is brief and excellent. Freakonomics – Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever.: This is a bunch of kids who don’t want to pay…
On The Call To Forgive Student Loans …
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There’s been a lot of chatter in recent months about so-called forgiveness of student loans. I’ve seen it as a significant thread on the OWS movement. And I also see calls for it on Facebook. From what I can tell…
Student Loans, Bubbles, and Misallocation of Resources
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Fantastic column from Warren Mayer (of Coyote Blog fame) in Forbes on the topic. Mayer explains the problem with our subsidies for college education. Massive misallocation of resources. This is not just some philosophical or academic question. It has a…
Four Items on Obama’s New Student Loan Plan
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Isn’t this just four things? 1. An additional unconstitutional move 2. A tax on current and future taxpayers 3. Yet another bailout 4. Political vote-getting move for 2012 Obama’s student loan debt-relief plan: Too good to be true? – Yahoo!…
Film: U.S. Students Can’t Compete in High-Tech World
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Here’s a fair example of the problem. While students in some other countries are learning science, math, and economics … a few students at RIT in Rochester, NY are building wooden houses to help injured squirrels rehab. Undergrad tuition at…