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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

December is the Cruelist Month: Watch Out, Student Debtors

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 T.S. Eliot was wrong: December is the cruelest month, not April.   We think of December as a time for rest after a toilsome and anxious yea...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Fair or Not, the Biden Administration Owns the Student Loan Catastrophe

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  I grew up in a small Oklahoma town before the era of the big box stores. If my family wanted to buy a small appliance, a birthday present,...
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Sunday, November 27, 2022

President Biden's Never Ending Pause On Student-Loan Payments: Hey, It's Just Monopoly Money

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 When I was a kid, my childhood friends and I often played  Monopoly on those long summer days when time stood still in southwestern Oklahom...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Be Awake, College Students! Massive Economic Turmoil is Coming

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A friend sent me a copy of the Magnificat journal's Advent Companion, a selection of daily reflections for the Advent season. Advent be...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Universities entering the gambling business while students place bets on their futures by taking out student loans

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 Sports betting is legal in most states, and universities are getting in on the action. As the New York Times reported earlier this week, e...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Another Half Assed Attempt to Fix Federal Student Loans With Bankruptcy: Essay by Steve Rhode

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The Department of Education just released a guidance document to the Department of Justice on what they feel should be done to allow people ...

DOE and DOJ Issue Guidelines for Dealing with Student Debtors in Bankruptcy: Blah, Blah, Blah

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 On November 17, the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued a 15-page document titled " Guidelines For Depar...