An Idea for Student Loans: Get Rid of Them. Student loans aren’t a subsidy for students. They’re a subsidy to the academic class, and mostly to administrators.

via nationalreview: It’s time to shut down the Bank of Uncle Stupid. Here is a three-part plan for something practical the federal government could do to relieve college-loan debt. Step 1: The federal government should stop making college loans itself and …

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants Universal Free College & Student Debt Cancellation

https://media.blubrry.com/silverdoctors/s/content.blubrry.com/silverdoctors/Silver_Doctors_News_Sen_Warren_Wants_Universal_Free_College_Student_Debt_Cancellation.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS Elizabeth Warren on Monday proposed eliminating the student loan debts of tens of millions of Americans and making all public colleges tuition-free, staking out an ambitious stance on one of the central policy debates …

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Bloomberg: U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166 Billion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-16/u-s-student-debt-in-serious-delinquency-tops-166-billion?srnd=premium Student-loan delinquencies surged last year, hitting consecutive records of $166.3 billion in the third quarter and $166.4 billion in the fourth. The total in arrears is about twice the amount the U.S. Treasury provided to bail out the auto …

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Student Loans – The Economic Time Bomb

by Martin Armstrong Trump should reverse what the Clintons did to student loans. He should RESTORE the right to go bankrupt. This huge problem was created by the Democrats who exempted student loans from normal protection for consumers. In addition, the bankers …

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