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The Great Unwind and the Final Redemption
The Great Unwind and the Final Redemption by O. Max Gardner What we are experiencing is called the global credit crisis for a reason. There is too much debt in the world. There is too much oil in the...
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Should we bail out student loans?
Three reasons to say no. Do Occupiers have a point in demanding a bailout of student loan debt? After all, the argument goes, the federal government bailed out the big financial institutions — why not...
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Hey millennials, you don’t actually like to be miserable, do you?
Introducing the Youth Misery Index. Young America’s Foundation has released a useful tool to quantify the hardships faced by today’s youth — by Obama Zombies, Occupiers and caught-in-between...
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Congresswoman lets the air out of the inflated student loan industry, says...
Good news: Nobody’s forcing you to take out a loan. In a radio interview today, North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx recounted the way she worked her way through college and said “there’s no...
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Some Thoughts on the Student Loan Debt Problem
The student loan issue is increasingly coming the front-burner, both domestically and abroad. I haven't blogged about it before (and it's worth noting how little scholarship there is on student loans...
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The Student Loan Tax
As student loan debt passed the $1 trillion mark, President Obama, speaking at Chapel Hill yesterday, called the upcoming interest rate hike on student loans a tax. He didn’t tell the half of it....
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Student-loan debt: The next bailout?
Only on the backs of private lenders. Haven’t we seen this one coming for a while? Back in November at the height of the Occupy movement, when activists demanded a bailout on student loans, Reason TV...
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Economy Recovering? No, it’s not. Housing? NO. Unemployment? NO. Stock...
A couple of quick clarifications related to stories now in the news: A. NO, housing has NOT hit bottom. If anyone tells you they think it has, just reply by saying: “Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut...
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Mandelman made $454,000 in 1 year as student loan debt collector?
No, it’s not me. And shame on you for thinking that even for a moment. I’m Martin Andelman, remember? My blog is named Mandelman Matters because when I first started blogging in 2008 on MSNBC’s...
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