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| The Other Student Loan Slow Jam: Is It Time for a National Service Corps? Huffington Post The slow jam was all about student loans, and though it may have been a big deal for Jimmy Fallon's ratings, it didn't really do much to address the breadth of the crisis. A lifetime ago, I proposed something that might actually go someway toward ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Would Hit Illinois Hard, Data Shows Huffington Post The law that expires this July would double interest rates on college loans from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. Data released by the Illinois Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Thursday shows that that increase could be particularly damaging for college ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| RBS to complete repayment of state loans: source Reuters L) will say on Friday that it will finish repaying 164 billion pounds ($264 billion) in emergency loans from Britain and the United States next week, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday. The repayments cover 75 billion pounds ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Student loans 101: The interest rate uproar BusinessWeek By CANDICE CHOI Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree: It would be a mistake to let interest rates on student loans double in July. Especially if they're going to be blamed for it in an election year. Student loans have become a political football ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Op-Ed: Keep down the rates of student loans Jewish Telegraphic Agency This is why, as educators, we must do all we can to convince lawmakers in Washington that they must not allow the interest rate on millions of so-called Stafford loans to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. That will happen automatically on July 1 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mortgage rates for 30-year loans hit record low San Francisco Chronicle Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed US loans fell to a record low, reducing borrowing costs as concerns about the US economic recovery and euro-region unemployment drove investors to the safety of government bonds. The average rate for a 30-year mortgage ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Banks May Have to Disclose Profits From ECB Emergency Loans BusinessWeek By Ben Moshinsky on May 03, 2012 Banks may have to disclose profits from carry trades derived from 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) in European Central Bank loans and exclude the money from bonus pools, under draft proposals from European Union ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| College Students Beg Congress to Not Double Student Loan Rates LoanSafe (Source: Congress) - Yesterday, almost 200 student body presidents, representing over 2.5 million college students around the country, sent a letter to Congress urging swift action on student loan interest rates. If Congress does nothing, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bank Premium at Record as Loan Margin Squeezed: Australia Credit BusinessWeek (WBC) and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) say returns on loans are dropping as competition for deposits and Europe's debt crisis drive up funding costs while home owners increase borrowing at 5.3 percent a year, the slowest pace since ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| College, Loans and the Road to Success - Opinion - PatriotPost.US By Cal Thomas It is something of a truism that whenever the federal government steps in, costs usually rise and efficiency declines. That is especially true when it comes to a college education, which President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to ... The Patriot Post | ||
| Freddie Mac mortgage modifications down as fewer loans go ... Mortgage servicers modified roughly 14000 Freddie Mac-guaranteed home loans in the first quarter, less than half the 35000 workouts one year ago as a new program begins. Modifications dropped every quarter since the peak in the middle ... HousingWire | ||
| To fix student loans, make college unnecessary — Joanne Jacobs By Joanne To fix student loans, make college unnecessary, writes columnist Ed Quillen in the Denver Post. Sending more people to college is no solution. Indeed, it would make the problem worse, for it would just drive costs up further while putting a glut ... Joanne Jacobs | ||
| Trillion-Dollar Misunderstanding: The Seven Sins of Federal Student ... By Richard Vedder The low interest rates (3.4 percent currently, and likely to continue) on federal subsidized Stafford loans are set by the political process, not market forces. Loose Federal Reserve monetary policy along with irresponsible lending by such ... Innovations | ||
| MASSPIRG on student loans By Charis Anderson MASSPIRG is out with a release today stating that a potential increase in interest rates for federal student loans could cost Massachusetts students $160 million a year. The current interest rate of 3.4 percent on subsidized Stafford loans is set ... Charis Anderson: On Education |
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| Private Loans Without Bankruptcy Option Are the Real Problem ... Private student loans are an oft-ignored part of the student debt problem, since they are often conflated with federal loans. But private students loans are almost ... www.usnews.com/.../private-loans-without-bankruptcy-option... |
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