Posts Tagged ‘ student debt ’

The Great Student Loan Debt Default

Mar 28th, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Like the housing bubble, which was predicated on easy money and rising prices, student loan lending has increased to unprecedented levels over the last decade. There is some $1 Trillion in outstanding student loan debt in the United States, the majority of it borrowed by individuals who were sold the idea ...read more

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Back to School for Debt Slavery

Mar 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Housing isn’t the only bubble the feds helped create. Debt has been driving up the price of all sorts of consumer goods for years. Higher education has been no exception. Thanks to debt the feds make available for schooling — directly through federal student loans and indirectly by artificially lowering the ...read more

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