Sep 6 2013

The day of reckoning for student debt has arrived and the bubble begins to deflate: JP Morgan exits the student debt market. Similar trends occurred with the subprime market in 2007.

The student debt bubble begins its inevitable decline from unparalleled heights.  This week too big to fail bank JP Morgan issued a memorandum that it is exiting the student loan business.  What is interesting in this move is that it is eerily similar to banking moves made back in 2007 as some banks started to […]

Sep 13 2011

The $1 trillion student loan market begins to implode – Department of Education shows two-year default rates at for-profit colleges up to 15 percent. Student loan debt increasing at a rate of $170,000 per minute.

We seem to have entered an era of perpetual and unshakeable financial bubbles and the next ripe bubble to burst is in the student loan market.  Student loan debt has become the fastest growing debt sector throughout the economic recession.  Growth at for-profit colleges has been incredible and tactics used at these institutions reflects patterns […]

Jun 6 2011

Serfdom via student loans – Lenders going after Social Security and saddling college graduates with a debt albatross. Modern day debtor’s prison comes with a University degree.

The sharp attention being pointed toward higher education is important for a variety of reasons including the grim reality that we are facing another extraordinary bubble.  Instead of blindly following into another credit fueled bubble we should probably pause as we cross the $1 trillion student loan threshold.  The cost of education is becoming onerous […]

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