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Friday, June 15, 2012

Wacky: A University of Chicago Professor Says Investors Should Finance Students' College Costs for Cut of Future Income

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Luigi Zingales,an economics professor at the University of Chicago, recently proposed an innovative way to finance students' college edu...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Thanks, NY Times, for Another Tepid Editorial About the Student Loan Crisis

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In The Big Lebowski , Bunny Lebowski tells the Dude that her boyfriend is a nihilist. "He doesn't care about anything," she ex...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Federal Government Should Stop Bankrolling the For-Profit College Industry

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Floyd Norris recently wrote a mild but provocative article in the New York Times that focused on ITT Educational Services, a for-profit cor...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Today’s New York Times Editorial About Student Loans is Not Very Useful

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Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times is entitled “Full Disclosure for Student Borrowers.” Basically, the Times says that “[c]oll...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

President Obama Can Do ThreeThings Right Now To Show He Cares About Student Loan Debtors

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According to Bloomberg, the Obama campaign has produced a television ad that showcases President Obama's efforts to aid college students...

Higher Education Industry to Students: If You Are Crushed by Student Loans, It's Your Own Damn Fault

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As Jimmy Buffet reminded us in Wasting Away in Margaritaville , some things are our own damn fault.  Apparently, this is the position of t...
Friday, May 18, 2012

What's a Trillion Dollars Among Friends? Is Student-Loan Debt "Good Debt"?

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A couple of days ago, Beckie Supiano wrote an article for   Chronicle of Higher Education , entitled “What Does $1-Trillion in Student Deb...