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21st Century Wire says…

Naturally, with all the shopping and sales – the holiday season is a good time to think about what you are being sold, and if it’s really good value for the money.



According to recent figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, there is only one job vacancy for every five college graduate applicants in America today.

In the last 15 years, college tuition in the US has risen a staggering 900%, while wages have jumped an impressive… well, err, an average 10%. For the bright, young and gifted out there, this equation should be studied very carefully…



MASTERS? Maybe in beer pong.

Regardless of how bleak the outlook is, America has always been the land of positive thinking and no wonder, as there is no shortage in the US government loan window queue of 17 year olds dying to (literally) sign their life away to JP Morgan, Citi Bank and Wells Fargo in exchange for a debt pile of around $60K – $100K in student loans. Add another $2K-5K per year on additional student credit card debt and you can see students even deeper in the red. It’s the ultimate ‘head start’ in the game of debt slavery, with the odds in favour of landing either an unpaid internship, or if you are lucky – some paid work as a waiter or bartender upon graduation.

Students getting into this scam now should expect to be writing out a monthly cheque to their government-bankers until at least the ripe age of 50 years old.

Here’s another throwaway statistic: by anyone’s estimate, approximately 10% of that loan total will likely be spend on alcohol and other party-related endeavors during college. Good investment?

OK then, if students are being shafted and the higher education bubble is a big scam, then who benefits? Answer: universities fill their war chests, bankers get their securitised paper and the US federal government turns a tidy profit off of your borrowing.

$1 trillion owed and rising

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Real Econ TV

Donald Trump’s Trump “University” is not the only organization accused of running a scam. The whole world of higher education is suspect.

Making emphatic promises of a better tomorrow, but being artfully vague about the details, higher ed has turned into a high growth industry with no accountability, unlimited prestige, and utter callousness towards its customers. Sound familiar? Sounds a lot like Wall Street or Washington or BP on the Gulf Coast, doesn’t it?

Who is going to pay back the $1 trillion? What impact will this have on a generation? By the way, $1 trillion is still a lot of money especially when it’s taken directly from the pockets of consumers in 22 to 40 years of age.

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READ MORE ON STUDENT LOANS AT: 21st Century Wire Student Loan File