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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

When It Comes to Student-Loan Crisis, The Department of Education Is a Wizard of Oz Outfit: No Brains, No Courage, and No Heart

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As the The   Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently, the U.S. Department of Education has relaxed it standards for regulating stud...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

You can't win if you don't play! Elite colleges engage in "promiscuous" recruiting to get their acceptance rates down

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Frank Bruni wrote a provocative op ed essay in the Times  awhile back about aggressive recruiting practices by elite colleges and universit...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

America's Journey into the "Heart of Darkness": MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, Elite Universities and Obamacare

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  Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's tale of one man's journey up a mysterious river into the heart of Africa, is one of those books...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, one third of student-loan borrowers in repayment during 2012 were delinquent!

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According to the Department of Education's most recent report, 13.7 percent of student-loan debtors in the most recent cohort of borrowe...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Now We're Getting Somewhere: Jason Delisle and Clare McCann Published A Very Useful Essay on Student-Loan Defaults in Forbes.Com

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As almost everyone knows, the Department of Education's annual report on student-loan defaults is not very useful.  Every autumn, DOE re...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Occasionally, The New York Times Says Something Sensible About the Student Loan Crisis: Bankruptcy Relief for Private Student Loan Borrowers

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Last month, the Student Loan Ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)issued a report highlighting the hardships experie...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Rohit Chopra and Rich Cordray Should Be Ashamed of Themselves: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Timid Report on Distressed Private Student-Loan Borrowers

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Rohit Chopra should be ashamed of himself. Rohit Chopra, the Student Loan Ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),...
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