Tuition hike for students is like a tax hike for the rich. Eventually, everybody wants to get their money. ben if you are a student or a lower-income person. In a stunning move to shore up a $535 million budget gap, the UC Regents in 2009 voted to raise student undergraduate tuition by 32 percent (to […]
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Student loan debt is at a record high at about $1.8 trillion. In a January 2023 report, the analysis showed that the average debt per borrower was over $37,000 for federal student loans and nearly $55,000 for private loans. But is it really a big deal when incomes are at record highs and the unemployment rate
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Do you ever feel you have to donate to your college alma mater? It seems like every quarter, you get an e-mail from your alma mater asking for money. It sometimes feels weird because some colleges have massive endowments. For example, Yale University’s endowment is more than $30 billion! Recently I was contacted by an
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Student loans for college are now highly contentions. With Joe Biden wanting to forgive $10,000 – $50,000 in student loan debt, more people are probably going to take out student loans. This is how moral hazard works. That said, student loans for college is an inevitability for all but the upper middle class and above.
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Who needs a job when you have a private school degree? If you are rich enough to attend private school, then you may be so rich you don’t really have to work for a living. That, or you can just work for your parents. Pick any private school. The cost is about $220,000 in tuition
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Every now and again, I stumble across something that makes me wonder, “Are you a financial dumb ass?” Someone forwarded me a post from a year ago where a PF blogger spent $60,000 on a luxury car right after revealing his net worth was only $55,000! He clearly violated my 1/10th rule for car buying everyone
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In America, we are truly blessed with opportunity to help us chart our own course and grasp success as much as we desire it. Services provided by financial institutions are one of the things that we as American citizens have easy access to, allowing us to utilize financing and credit to further our goals in
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Grades obviously do matter. However, here’s a post arguing the other side, that grades don’t matter. I assure you grades do matter if you want to get a job at Goldman Sachs and eventually make $400,000 a year working 90+ hours a week! For all those who didn’t perform well in college, don’t want to
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A college education is valuable. However, how do we value a college education so we can feel better about spending so much time and money on collegee? There will inevitably be someone in a net worth related article comment how he or she isn’t doing so great due to all of his or her student loans. Because
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If you live in the United States, you are wealthy beyond what most others dream of. Your salary is 99% higher than of the world population. You are already wealthy, stop complaining! If you find yourself complaining, visit areas like India, and Africa, and you’ll see what real poverty looks like. If you moved there, you
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