The frightening lack of accounting transparency in the student loan market: New York Fed has student loan debt at $1.027 trillion while Fed Board of Governors in Washington has it at $1.214 trillion.
You see what you want to see. This is the current state of the financial markets. When a handful of observers were warning the Fed and multiple government agencies about the subprime crisis floating in the market, hardly anyone wanted to listen. This is the same kind of accounting trickery that is now pervasive in […]
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 […]
Line up and prepare for the next bailout in student debt: Student loan debt crosses the $1.2 trillion mark. $248,000 for an undergraduate degree?
The nation is fully engulfed in a student debt bubble. The problems with student debt are numerous yet this unrelenting bubble is allowed to grow like weeds in a garden. Going back to 2000 total student debt outstanding rested around $200 billion. Today it is over $1.2 trillion. Keep in mind that during this time […]
Arrested development courtesy of student debt: How student debt is putting the lives of many young Americans on hold.
Many young Americans view student debt as a necessary evil in pursuing higher education. The level of student debt now reaches Himalayan levels as many are falling behind on keeping up with payments. A double-edged sword has befallen young Americans. First, the path to middle class jobs no longer runs through a blue collar industry […]