Student Loans: The Elephant In The Room?

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Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In 1988, a bank called Guardian Savings and Loan made financial history by issuing the first ever “subprime” mortgage bond. The idea was revolutionary. The bank essentially took all the mortgages they had loaned to borrowers with bad credit, and pooled everything together into a giant bond that they could then sell to other banks and investors.

If you're in your 20s, you're probably going through one of the toughest financial periods of your life -- especially if you went to college.

Corinthian Colleges Has agreed to sell half of its campuses including some Everest and WyoTech schools.

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Most debt you can get out of—painful as it might be. Credit card debt can be cleared in bankruptcy. A mortgage can end in foreclosure. But student debt is more sticky, and it turns out it can have big consequences in retirement. Last year, Richard Minuti’s Social Security payments were cut by 10%.

Most debt you can get out of—painful as it might be. Credit card debt can be cleared in bankruptcy. A mortgage can end in foreclosure. But student debt is more sticky, and it turns out it can have big consequences in retirement. Last year, Richard Minuti’s Social Security payments were cut by 10%.

With global moral hazard having long ago become institutionalized, and codified as "monetary policy", catering almost exclusively to the TBTF entities in the financial sector, we were surprised it took as long as it did for Obama to announce (as he did last week), that the administration is now studying "new bankruptcy options" for student loan borrowers: code word for an across the board student debt moratorium, or forgiveness.