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...You know, the theory is when interest rates are zero, people like you and I and people like the listeners should have very cheap access to loans....
...After attending a lecture given by Warren Buffett, Li started investing his student loan in the stock market, making significant returns....
...Her studies entitled her to stay in the US on a student visa. Black paid her tuition....
...Japan’s shrinking student population has gradually reduced the market for the palettes, pencil sharpeners, brush buckets and other products it sells to schools and art colleges....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...loan repayments....
...And I think some of it’s to do with the flurry of legislation that’s been passed and maybe the student loan forgiveness. But I think a lot of it has to do with the focus on Trump....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...SoFi grew quickly in the aftermath of the financial crisis, tapping into a growing market of college graduates seeking to refinance their student loans before expanding into other financial products....
...I felt about as comfortable before the June 10 drop as I’d feel walking into a rager hosted by my students....
...Founders of a fashion brand, a venture capitalist switching jobs and an MBA student recount their experiences....
...Jim O’Neill, the former Treasury minister, likens such a write-off to the situation with student loans....
...But when the average student can spend almost three-quarters of a maintenance loan package on rent, universities are more vulnerable than private providers to student rent strikes....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...referring to how consumers struggle to understand the high costs of short-term borrowing on credit cards and payday loans....
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, -- Why Facebook's Libra is a "terrible idea" -- More problems for Facebook's Libra -- Leveraged loans v high yield -- Costs of the US-China trade war -- Has China reached peak...
...The sector will be fine. — NM1 Consider a tax on earnings v student loans Finance should be via equity funding, not debt funding. Institute a graduate tax of 1 per cent or so on lifetime earnings....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, but I did get an expensive MA, some friends who are geniuses and five years of crippling “career development loan” repayments....
...Her tuition and living expenses are partly funded by a graduate student loan from the Colombian government, half of which would be converted into a grant if she returns to her homeland within three years...
...Economic proposals Left v right A quarter of a century ago, before the wave of crises that hit emerging markets in the late 1990s, Brazil became a model of liberal reform....
...As well as helping it loan out artefacts to other institutions, the museum said the Reading facility would incorporate study rooms giving access to university students, academics and members of the public...
...The FT reports that Apple’s iPhone X is assembled by illegal student labour....
...It is also very costly to the taxpayer: very few of these students will ever pay off their loans....
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