Many years ago, when I was a fledgling attorney, my senior partner gave me some advice I never forgot.  He told me that a competent attorne...

  Jornada del Muerto  is a hundred-mile stretch of the  Camino Real , which once ran from Mexico City to the northernmost outpost  of the Sp...

An airline pilot, flying a transoceanic route, made an announcement over the intercom to the passengers. "I have some good news and bad...

Most Americans have confidence in what the Federal Reserve Bank says about the national economy. I know I do. But when the Federal Reserve B...

Ben Miller, senior director of the Center for American Progress, reminds me of a fuddy duddy who falls asleep at a wild party in a friend...

Last month, the Department of Education released its latest report on three-year default rates for the 2014 cohort of student borrowers. DOE...

Thousands of student-loan borrowers are dropping out of income-based repayment plans, the U.S. Department of Education admitted recently. As...

Colleges must keep their student-loan default rates down or they will lose their right to participate in the federal student loan program. I...

During World War I, it was said the British Army kept three different casualty lists: one list to deceive the public, a second list to decei...

I seldom agree with the New York Times .  I live in the real world, and the Times editorial writers and op ed essayists live in the land of...

The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) published a report this week on Sallie Mae, the nation's largest lender of private student loans...

Many people underestimate the magnitude of the student loan crisis because they forget that student-loan debtors are borrowing money at inte...

Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times is entitled “Full Disclosure for Student Borrowers.” Basically, the Times says that “[c]oll...