Forex Trader to Halt Services Due to “Uncertainty in Europe”
Activist Post In what may foreshadow an extremely volatile week for the euro, the large Forex trading company OANDA announced that it will halt currency…
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Indentured Servitude for Students and Seniors
Ellen H. Brown, Contributor Activist Post “The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread…
Is the Student Loan Bubble About to Burst?
Eric Blair Activist Post In February of this year, the S&P warned that student loans may be the next bubble to burst in US economy….
Scottish academic encourages selling kidneys to pay off student loan debt
???? / image source Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post It is no secret that student loans are treated as exceptional by the financial industry…
Fed fines Wells Fargo over US subprime mortgages
The US central bank slapped Wells Fargo with an $85 million fine on Wednesday © AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US…
Student Loans and the Deficit
Will Federal Student Lending become the Government’s ATM machine? – Wiki Image Libby A. Nelson and Doug Lederman Inside Higher Ed WASHINGTON — For much…
The Next Bubble Is About to Burst: College Grads Face Dwindling Jobs and Mounting Loans
Today’s graduates face miserable job prospects, and experts say the student loan crisis could be worse than the credit card or housing bubbles. Sarah Jaffe…
Bad Education: College Debt No Longer Economical
Wikimedia image Malcolm Harris N+1 Magazine The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 graduated with $24,000 in outstanding loans….
Newly Graduated And Drowning In Six Figures Of Student Loan Debt
College Graduates Wikimedia Image Amanda M. Fairbanks Huffington Post NEW YORK — Hardly a day goes by where Ashley Angello doesn’t fret about her student…
Senate report to reveal mortgage crisis details: WSJ
The Journal said the Senate investigation’s findings would likely expose bad blood between Goldman and Morgan Stanley © AFP/Getty Images/File Chris Hondros AFP WASHINGTON (AFP)…
High-Interest Lenders Feast on Soldiers
At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates Chris Kirkham Huffington Post LAWTON, Okla. – Just outside the front gates of the sprawling Fort Sill…
The Student Loan Debt Bubble
Curse of the First ‘Austerity Generation’ Alan Nasser Lew Rockwell It was announced last summer that total student loan debt, at $830 billion, now exceeds…
Police must not be seen as arm of the state, warns top officer
Sir Hugh Orde warns that repeated clashes with demonstrators risks damaging reputation of police force Vikram Dood Guardian Police fear becoming the focus of public…
Is the College Debt Bubble Ready to Explode?
image source Laura Rowley Yahoo! Finance Kelli Space, 23, graduated from Northeastern University in 2009 with a bachelor’s in sociology — and a whopping $200,000…