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October 6, 2011 Legal education in the United States is in extreme crisis. Schools are lying to prospective students about employment figures, and are trying to make the picture look better than it really is. But when you’re recruiting for an organization that uses 70+ hours of weekly work to beat people down, lying to…
August 10, 2011 It’s a bad sign for a school when instead of receiving donations from graduates, they get served. A group of law school graduates have filed a class action lawsuit against their respective alma maters aleging fraudulent marketing practices. The Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School are named as…
July 18, 2011 Self storage, first month free! Giving away storage free for a month may seem like a bad business practice. Why would you ever give away the only thing you sell when you’re a for-profit business? How many gas stations or grocery stores do you see doing this? It’s actually a very clever…
July 10, 2011 — Andrew Spillane, I slap you with my white glove and throw it down at your feet – you have been challenged to a duel! Spillane’s article came out a few days ago. This was his “Hello world” article, having never posted before on the anonymous, public walls of the blogosphere, and…
April 12, 2011 It’s surprising to me that 25% of government student loans default. More evidence that the biggest bubble in the American economy is growing fast.
Published: January 18, 2011 Part Three of a Three Part Series Roadmap of article: This analysis discusses the role of student debt in the education system. It argues that we should change the current law so as to allow student loans to be forgiven (or discharged, synonymously) through bankruptcy. There are three primary premises which…
Published: January 13, 2011 Part Two of a Three Part Series “’Bank bailouts, company bailouts — I don’t know, we’re the generation of bailouts,’ says [Michael Wallerstein] in a hallway during a break from his Peak Discovery job. ‘And like, this debt of mine is just sort of, it’s a little illusory. I feel like…
How will we save for the education of the 2.1 offspring we hope to create when we can safely expect to be paying our loans into the 2020s?