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Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/student-debt-and-the-crushing-of-the-american-dream/
I have waxed on the subject of student loans a number of times (see here, here, here and here for just a few examples). When the student loan …
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-america-the-college-loan-scandal-20130815…
How to demolish the oligarchy in 3 easy steps
American democracy has been tainted by lobbying and corporate interests. How do we fix it? Blow it all up
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/how_to_demolish_the_oligarchy_in_3_easy_steps/
This is a nice clean summary of some of the pivotal …
Prior to my looking at the third-party candidates and reviewing them I am going to quickly describe my views so my reader(s) know from what direction I cast my gaze. I doubt this will be all encompassing (and I am …
That my student loans are all federally backed and thus have tightly fixed interest rates…
Protesters’ new front
Americans have finally awakened to the decades-long corruption of higher education
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/23/protesters_furious_new_front/
I am very familiar with the inability to bankrupt student …
Stop subsidizing soaring college costs
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/bennett-college-costs/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
It makes a huge amount of sense to me that if there is no price pressure on producers then there is no profit pressure, hence no benefit to producing something more efficient. If schools …
Salon has a followup article on their earlier Declaration of Independence article (see http://sol-biotech.com/wordpress/2011/10/31/a-new-declaration-of-independence/ for my take on their original post):
Your Declarations: Readers respond to our manifesto
From campaign finance reform to narrowing our focus, you weigh in on …
A New Declaration of Independence
The weight of the 1 Percent has become intolerable. How can we take our country back? Here’s a fresh draft
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/a_new_declaration_of_independence/singleton/
I like Salon a lot and I like this document. I doubt it will …
A proposed demand for Occupy Wall Street
Let’s tackle the debt that actually matters
http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/05/a_proposed_demand_for_occupy_wall_street/singleton/
Yes, the ‘moral hazard’ is still there, but as the author points out, how is that one tiny bit different than Goldman Sachs reporting record …
And I bet I don’t get any benefit from it either…
Student loan debts crush an entire generation
Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/student_loan_debts_crush_an_entire_generation/singleton/
I have been out …