Making Your Money Stretch Further
If you get a student loan and you really think hard about it you’ll know that you shouldn’t take out as much as you possibly can. You’ll figure out that it’s important to take out as little as you possibly can. But how can you figure out that amount of money? And what should you do with the loan money that you do get? There are actually a few different things to think about and you’ll need to consider all of your expenses in order to make it work properly. […]
The Draw of Student Loans
For a lot of people the initial idea of student loans is negative. You don’t want to owe more money after you’ve finally finished going to school. Who wants to make all those payments for years and then lose money that they worked hard for? It’s something that you have to push yourself to agree to simply because, if you don’t, you’ll never be able to go to college and that idea sounds even worse than making payments after it’s over. But once you start looking at those student loans they get a little more appealing. […]
Student Loan News – October 25, 2013
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday October 25, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. The take on student-loan payments: Most of it has been about the federal-debt burden. I want to shift the discussion to individuals, particularly those with private student loans. The student-loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has just released a report analyzing complaints the watchdog agency has received from private student-loan borrowers. […]
Student Loan News – September 27, 2013
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday September 27, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. U.S. to Contact Borrowers With New Options for Repaying Student Loans: When President Obama last month announced proposals to make college more affordable, many critics focused on his plan to rate colleges based on measures like tuition, graduation rates, and the debt and earnings of graduates, and eventually to link financial aid to those ratings. […]
Student Loan News – September 20, 2013
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday September 27, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Fiasco to Force Our Next Debt Crisis? Last week I wrote about how auto loans have reached their highest level since the third quarter of 2007 and how easy access to these loans was pushing car sales higher. Yes, ballooning auto loans are a problem, but there is a bigger ticking debt time bomb… […]
Student Loan News – July 12, 2013
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday July 12, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Work resumes after student loan bill fails: The defeat of a student loan bill in the Senate on Wednesday clears the way for fresh negotiations to restore lower rates, but lawmakers are racing the clock before millions of students return to campus next month to find borrowing terms twice as high as when school let out. […]