TARP “Reform” Only Makes Things Worse

Dear fellow patriot, Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has introduced H.R ... of consumer loans, such as student and auto loans. More government bureaucracies to supervise other ... out auto manufactures and make loans to their financing arms. Congress opposed the use of the funds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:41:17

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North Dakota Legislators Considering A Tuition Freeze

Because government price controls always work so well. (BISMARCK) ... of higher education is taking its toll on students. As noted by the Project on Student Debt, North Dakota ... through student loans. The average debt held by these students is $21,648, which ranks 15th [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:56:58

Student, Car Debt Quietly Added to Bailout Plan

Jeez! This country very well may be doomed beyond hope! This is not the time to be sneaky, and push even more expenses on the taxpayers ... its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets ... program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations in the United States, potentially added tens [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 02:08:02

You’ll Receive The Title In About 10 Days

I’ve spent so much time and energy sending off money to our debts over the past year and a half, I kind of lost sight of the fact that sometimes, ... my spouse’s student loan last month, which was for his education, but the education is long completed ... months to my spouse’s student loan, but somehow physically writing this on the check made [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 11:14:15

The Daily Poverty Post.

You are looking at Bossy when she graduated from college, which was approximately eighteen years after she began ... from her husband yesterday saying, “Oops, I forgot about your student loan!” Of course you don’t remember, because Bossy never told you! And guess how much Bossy still owes on her student loan [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 13:56:44

Hidden in the Stimulus Bill

Last December Higher Ed Watch caught wind of back-room maneuvering on Capitol Hill to retroactively change the way the federal government sets lender subsidies in the guaranteed student loan program. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings ... concern that the change sought by the Secretary (and the student loan industry) was being debated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:20:03

Help a Reader: Funding College

Here's a question I recently received from a reader: Should I take a new Stafford Loan for school, or just put it on a credit card? CC rate is 5.9% Student Loan is 6.8% Each 6 month term will be around 3k. I'm looking at 4 terms to finish. The tax benefits of the Student Loan are interesting, but I'm not sure how great they will really [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 19:46:10

Government Extends Loans to Detroit Automakers

This is today’s big news, and you’ve probbably heard about it already ... Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog:GM Wants You to Fear its Collapse: ...New Students Get Student Loan ... . This morning, President Bush approved three-year loan to GM and Chrysler which would give [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 16:07:46

How Old Are You Financially?

How old are you financially? A baby? A toddler? A child? A teenager? A young adult? Mature? A senior citizen? ... out financially, beginning to contribute to retirement accounts. Might also have a first credit card, car loan and the all important student loans as well. Lots of expenses are part of the ‘latte factor’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 11:00:27

The Rising Costs of Student Loans

It wasn’t until he graduated college in May 2008 that my friend Ben realized the depth of his student loans: $40, ... too much about the numbers as he signed loan papers at the start of each semester. The debt totals ... at the time. In the past ten years, debt levels for college graduates have more than doubled. In 1993 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 23:43:36

What’s Going On? November 6, 2008

"High School Musical" star Bart Johnson I don’t know what it’s like by you, but it’s gray, ... one. What happens if you’re approved fora loan but can’t afford to pay it off? This is especially appropropriate for college students seeking student loans, and those who are considering applying [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:10:42

Higher Ed Roundup: Week of July 14 - July 18

Dept. of Ed Requests Emergency Survey on Credit Transfers Few Colleges Join TEACH program New Repayment Program for Borrowers May Not Help All ... turns in to a loan if students fail to meet their commitment to teach for four years following graduation. The change from grant to loan can occur even while students are teaching if their schools move [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 00:31:00

Tell All Tuesday: The Budget Crunch Edition

Even though our situation has changed greatly since June of 2007 when I started this blog, ... that extra $200 that was going to the credit card each month to my spouse’s student loan ... directly to our snowflake fund to pay off my spouse’s student loan. We do all this because [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 18:53:36

Laying Out Student Loan Options for CBO

Around this time of year our friends at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ... Grants As we have said previously, the role student loan guaranty agencies play in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program is anachronistic, inefficient, ill-defined and riddled [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:41:49

Bailout Gets More Costly Due to “Bipartisan” Deal; Foolish Limits on Foreclosure Should Be Removed

Liberal Congressional leaders have apparently reached a deal with the Bush Administration on the principal elements of a $700 billion bailout of the ... student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other ‘troubled’ assets held by banks.” ... have stuck taxpayers with 100 percent of all losses on any bad loan or mortgage, but not the profits [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 20:34:55

Need Cash?

We can’t deny that these days, everything seems to be so much expensive than before. With the gas price hike, food prices, tuition fees as well ... for a bill that is due and you just can’t find money. Good thing there is PayDay Loans that can help ... for a project, this Student Loan Repayments is there to rescue you! Actually, there are different kinds [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 20:02:09

Citron Comments on Apollo Part 2 - Revenge of the Analysts

stock ticker: APOL Citron is fascinated by the analysts’ quick responses to its Apollo report, ... . Managing Cohort Default Rates by paying back student loans is not a new concept. It was employed ... According to the department, the company “then attempted to collect the loan amounts from its students [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:24:54

College on a Dime: Public colleges boosted by economic woes

Filed under: College, College on a DimeMany college-bound high school students have their eye on attending expensive private colleges, ... job market, a few hundred dollars per month in student loan payments can add to the stress ... . The huge expenditures of the first few years will have been for nothing. With student loans drying up, many [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 19:00:00

Student Loan

.fullpost{display:inline;}-Everyone want get better education, after high school we want continue the education to University, ... , this site also gives tools and resources for student to get scholarship, loan repayment calculator, financial aid calendar, from this loan you can get fresh fund between $3000-$45.000 per year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:49:00

Eliminate Debt: Get Back On The Road To Financial Independence

Everybody wants to attain financial independence but are tied down because of debts and lack of financial planning ... to credit cards, car payment, mortgage, student loans, personal loans, home equity, and other bill ... are as long as the one I mentioned above, then debt consolidation might be the best choice. The third [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:32:10

Girl Turns to Prostitution to Pay Off Student Loan Debt

lasvegas09152008.jpg Photo courtesy of .craig We have all read stories of shocking things people have done to get out of debt ... for repayment of her student loan debt.  Some Nevada house of ill-repute has agreed to host the “event ... loan debt.  There are certainly many other reputable alternatives to debt repayment. Charity for Debt [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 11:00:10

A Plan to Be Debt Free in 2009

Considering the current state of the economy, it’s likely a smart thing to try and rid yourself of any excess debt right now ... out your latest credit card statements, auto loan statements, student loan statements, etc ...  are a bit lower, and are also tax deductible. debt-payoff-plan Some people decide that it’s easier [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:10:27

10 of the Millennium’s Best College Business Scandals

Having a higher education usually means making a higher income, but these ten deal snatchers have made an art form of pilfering available resources ... list. About 90% of students look no further when seeking a federally guaranteed student loan ... returned millions to the schools based on loan volume the schools referred. Six schools have agreed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 19:30:49

What Is Debt Consolidation And Can It Help You

by William Blake Most people have heard of debt consolidation through junk mail, on television, or other forms of media ... cases, debt consolidation involves several unsecured debts into one secured loan. This secured loan ... , but typically the steps are different for student loans than for unsecured debt from credit cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 14:01:07

Financial Forecast for 2009, Considering Resource Limitations

In this post, I consider some major issues contributing to our current financial problems, before making a financial forecast for 2009. These are 1 ... from the bottom: Layer 1. Household Debt (Mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt, student loans ... debt-based financial system operating. 3. Where we are now, and the role reduced resources [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:32

Should Christians Use Credit Cards?

This post was written by Linda Bustos is an editor for Creditor Web, where you can learn about debt forum. The Bible gives wise advice that we should not go into debt. There aremany reasons for this – ... there can be understandablereasons to go into debt – a mortgage, a student loan, a car loan – thedebt in itself [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 12:07:00

Money as a Dealbreaker?

Is money a “dealbreaker” in relationship?  If you meet a great person and found out after a few months of dating, they had massive student loans, some credit card debt, and a car loan; is that a deal breaker?  Would you run for the hills or stick around? It was an interesting question posed on a message board I read.  But currently two [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 13:00:04

Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements

Totally absurd? Think twice: In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans ... in draft language that also opened the bailout program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:05:06

paying tuition to life

Have you ever loaned money to a friend or family member? Did you really loan it or was it borrow?  I guess the question of the day is would you loan money? I was thinking back ... student he ran up credit cards, drove a a fancy car, and took out student loans, etc.  He was a ROTC [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:00:30

Paulson's New Program: Giving People Money They Can't Afford To Spend

The news is as old as the Magna Carta. The consumer is broke. He does not have a dime. He is out of work. He is defaulting on his home equity loan, and the bank has reposed his credit card. It may ... of auto loans, student loans and credit cards." The head of the Treasury is concerned that people [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 10:50:07

Eliminate Debt

We can't deny the fact that our world suffered economic crises nowadays ... own more than one credit card, car payment, mortgage, bills, student loans, personal loans, home ... , lower credit card payments, budgeting debt, stay debt free and many more. It's guaranteed safe [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 16:25:14

Student Loan Companies Agree to "Code of Conduct"

2008_09_stlean.jpg Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has made misleading practices in the student loan industry one of his major issues (see the AG's info on student lending), and yesterday he announced seven companies will follow a "code of conduct for their marketing". Campus Door, EduGap, GMAC Bank, Graduate Loan Associates, Nelnet [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 14:00:11

Bush: Bailout benefits Main, Wall Streets

by Mark Silva He has gone on national television, ... to a credit freeze at every level, the administration warns: Home loans, car loans, student loans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 15:09:06

Tell All Tuesday ~ Slowly Forward Edition

This past week, all I did directly towards reducing our debt was made my monthly car payment ... $21,414.50 Broken down into: Credit Card: PAID OFF 2/7/08 Student loan (at 7%): $11,084.68 Spouse ... about our future debt elimination strategy and I wanted to address it.    Once my spouse’s student loan [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 19:39:00

Case Not Closed: Matteo Fontana's Resignation Leaves Unanswered Questions

More than 500 days after being placed on paid administrative leave, Matteo Fontana officially resigned from his position at the U.S ... from a student loan company he was in charge of overseeing. But if Department leaders think that Fontana's ... at least $100,000 worth of stock in the company Student Loan Xpress. It is clear that Fontana's [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:56:00

Student Debt Consolidation Loan

by Mary Bush Large numbers of college students make that common mistake each year of signing up for as many credit cards as possible ... . About the Author: Debt Consolidation Articles Advise For Rebuilding Your Credit with a Prepaid Debit Card ... application. Of course, once the credit cards start to arrive, they’ll be using them to finance [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:05:55

The Downside of a J.D.

National Law Journal:  Discovering a Law Degree's Downside:  Sending the Wrong Signal in Bad Times? ... some of the nearly $85,000 in student loan debt, Allam began to think she'd made a mistake by going the law ... in landing a job in another field may well be overblown. With student loan debt at an all-time high [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:09:30

T3leads - Highest Paying Pay-Per-Lead Affiliate Program?

Sponsors of The Month Make Money with Motive Interactive. What's Your Motive? ... . It covers niches related to the areas of payday loans, auto insurance, mortgage loans, student loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 12:00:39

Student Loan Debt Crushing Graduates

I support higher education, but after seeing a lot of college graduates working at Starbucks, ... s $85-billion student loan market. She borrowed heavily, presuming that all her debt was part ... in photography from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. She also picked up $140,000 in student debt [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 12:00:18

Back Room Deal on Student Loan Subsidies?

Last month Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings wrote to Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) ... in the guaranteed student loan program. This request has received little attention from the press ... reforms in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program. The Subsidy And Its History [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:45:00

Citron Releases the Document that The Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL) Does Not Want You or the US Government to See.

stock ticker: APOL Last week, The Apollo Group reported what appeared to be strong quarterly operating profits in their for-profit ... .   Here’s why: Before discussing, it is important to note that Title IV loans are the backbone ... from these loans, and is the largest single recipient of student loan funds in the country [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:05:38

Reader Question: My student loans went into collections! How do I get it off my credit score?

Reader's QuestionHi FB,A couple of months ago I was denied a student loan deferment and forbearance although I was unemployed and not earning any ... , like Debt Counselling of Canada. They should NEVER CHARGE YOU ANYTHING for their services ... debt shows. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 22:11:00

How about Going to Graduate School Overseas?

Frankly, I believe U.S. is the best place for education, ... vagabonding, is worth the $10,000 of student loans I am evading by living in Oaxaca, Mexico ... , new language, oaxaca mexico, pore, solid foundation, student loans, Travel Info, undergraduate degree [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:19:43

A Good Debt Management Program Can Be a Life Saver

by William Blake Do you feel like you are over you head in debts? Many see themselves buried in debt due to car loans, medical bills, student loans, credit card debt, etc. All of these debts can spell financial disaster as the majority of them are unsecured loans [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 19:13:30

Unpatriotic, sucker, short-sighted, or what?

By Thoreau I just made my last student loan payment.  I’ve been making more than the minimum payment because I wanted to be debt-free ... for not waiting on payments until the hyper-inflation era means that my student loans have the same [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 04:38:20

Tell All Tuesday: Four Figure Debt Edition

Our total non-mortgage debt is now in the four figure range ... demolition!  Yesterday I made my “new” $300 payment to my student loan.  We are still building ... like that.  I like to feel like I am making progress.  This knocked the balance of my student loan down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:08:14

AES Student Loans Review (pfblogs.org)

American Education Services is a private company that offers information and applications for a variety of governmental and private financing options for students all under one roof. Their website http://www.aessuccess.org/ allows students and their parents to compare various college loan programs, search out financial aid and scholarships [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 03:04:06

Maybe Kevin Cullen should stick to writing about mobsters

Aaron Weber explains why Cullen's recent Ungrateful Sallie Mae column does a good job at pulling at the heart strings (family of a dead Marine having trouble getting the company to forgive $100,000 in student loans ... . And that, Weber (who works in the loan field) concludes, might be because Cullen couldn't be bothered to ask [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 04:02:43

Obama: Tax Hike For People Making Over $250,000/Year Is “Chump Change”

So says The One in an MTV interview: Sway: Our next question is from Matt from Iowa: “If your desire is to spread the wealth around, ... everybody is just looking out for themselves. I mean, the fact is, we just talked about student loans ... do you think we pay for scholarships or loan programs? That money doesn’t grow on trees. It’s got [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 17:23:27

Tell All Tuesday: Options Edition

As far as debt goes, nothing has changed since last week ... the minimum payments on my student loan and the car loan (like I have been doing all along) but next ... , that leaves $437.59 to allocate to one of those debts above its actual minimum. The car loan next [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 19:10:15

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