More than a dozen students who say they got suckered into big student loans launched a debt strike last week and are refusing to make payments on their federal loans. It’s a good move, writes Astra Taylor in the New York Times, but it’s not nearly enough....
The Bryan Ellis Investing Letter – If you’re graduating from college these days, then you’re probably graduating under a mounting and increasingly-heavy pile of student loan debt. For some reason, however, that’s not slowing most student borrowers down....
Think student loan debt is only a problem for new grads – and maybe their families? Think again. The ballooning student loan debt crisis has hit generations ranging from those new graduates to midlife professionals to retirees. And it’s those “senior citizens’...
Introduction: Zac Bissonnette is the author of, “GOOD ADVICE FROM BAD PEOPLE: Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong.” He previously wrote, “How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents”, and...
It could be the pebble that creates an avalanche One of the financial items that have been prevalent in the news over the past few years is the exploding level of U.S. student loan debt. The situation has amplified recently, as unemployment increased dramatically and...