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Showing posts with label 25-year student-loan repayment plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 25-year student-loan repayment plans. Show all posts
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Unlicensed medical doctor who owes $650,000 in student debt is directed to pay 80 bucks a month for 25 years: "The law is an ass"

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  "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass - a idiot...
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Friday, July 2, 2021

40-year home mortgages, 9-year car notes, and 25-year student-loan programs: This will end badly

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Interest rates, as the tv hucksters constantly remind us, are near historic lows. So now is an excellent time to refinance your mortgage--ma...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Williams v. U.S. Department of Education: How does someone run up $400,000 in student-loan debt?

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 In Greene v. U.S. Department of Education , Judge Richard Posner, a universally esteemed jurist, remarked that the criteria for determining...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Rodger Love v. U.S. Department of Education: Betsy DeVos wears no clothes (metaphorically speaking)

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According to  Urban Dictionary , "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," is a phrase "often used in political or social contexts for ...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Good News out of Kansas: A compassionate bankruptcy judge grants a 59-year-old debtor a partial discharge of her student loans

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The Remarkable Case of Vicky Jo Metz Twenty-seven years ago, Vicky Jo Metz , took out $16,613 in student loans to go to community college....
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Goodbye, Arne Duncan. We Hardly Knew Ye. The Secretary of Education Is Leaving Higher Education in a Mess

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Arne Duncan is stepping down as Secretary of Education in December. Like all good politicians, Arne knows when it's time to slip out the...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Susan Dynarski wrings her hands because we don't have enough information about the student debt crisis. But we know enough to take action.

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Susan Dynarski recently wrote a half-page article in the Sunday Times , complaining about the government's lack of useful data about the...
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