Unpaid Student Loans Top $1 Trillion

October 20th, 2011

This whole student loan apocalypse is another confetti currency bubble scam. There are many parallels to the housing bubble, except, of course, that people can’t live inside those useless degrees obtained with borrowed money that can never be repaid.

The availability of the loans is driving ludicrous tuition increases, just like the funny money mortgages inflated the real estate market.

In other news: Rise of the Machines: America’s Jobs Challenge’.

Have a nice day.

Via: USA Today:

Students and workers seeking retraining are borrowing extraordinary amounts of money through federal loan programs, potentially putting a huge burden on the backs of young people looking for jobs and trying to start careers.

The amount of student loans taken out last year crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time and total loans outstanding will exceed $1 trillion for the first time this year. Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards, reports the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Students are borrowing twice what they did a decade ago after adjusting for inflation, the College Board reports. Total outstanding debt has doubled in the past five years — a sharp contrast to consumers reducing what’s owed on home loans and credit cards.

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One Response to “Unpaid Student Loans Top $1 Trillion”

  1. quintanus says:
    October 21, 2011 at 1:53 am

    yeah, the paradox is that at the same time, there is a sharp trend towards teaching assistants, or adjuncts earning $3500, $3000, or even $2000 per course/semester for teaching. The earnings for community college or 4yr college instructors who can’t get hired full time are lower than for k-12 teachers, often substantially so. Most students just see someone over age 27 at the front of the classroom and can’t tell that they don’t have an assistant professor. So where is the money going? The universities don’t deliver dividends on the stock market. Senior tenured professors do earn good salaries (maybe $100-135k, but what was the payscale 30 years ago? http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=0,1

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