October 6, 2011
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 attract extra students becomes doubly immoral – not only have these students been tricked into being a lawyer, but they’re now locked into indentured servitude for over a decade.
In the developed and law abiding world, I see nothing more resemblant of a slavecatcher than an admissions officer touting inflated job data.
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August 7, 2011
August 7, 2011
The cost of money has just gone up. It makes sense, really, that this happened, but the disappointing part is that it was totally avoidable.
And S&P directly blames the GOP. Interesting.
the finger = bankruptcy power for student loans
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April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
“They said things like, ‘We know your father has been molesting you. Why don’t you have him take his cock out of your ass and stick it in your mouth? You know you like it. Why don’t you have your wife come over here and give us blow jobs? You’re a loser. Why don’t you jump in front of a train and kill yourself?’ I recorded all of it and sent it to my attorney, Joseph Mauro.” Bart Bryant recalls his interactions with a collections agency in a recent article from Alternet, documenting the practices of today’s debt collectors.
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April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011
There’s a lot of talk about the next bubble. Some say it’s tech, but they’d be wrong. While a few companies will always go out of business, tech is taking off for very good reasons – there’s nothing “bubbly” about it.
Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, recently made a statement in Tech Crunch, making the point that education is the next bubble. I come to the same conclusion in my article written back in January.
Here’s a quick rundown of what the education bubble is, why it’s going to pop, and how we can avoid it.
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January 18, 2011
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 this analysis assumes to be true. For the sake of brevity, they are not discussed. If need be, the author is prepared to defend these assumptions. They are as follows:
1.) We are producing too many degrees. There are too many students and not enough workers.
2.) The cost of tuition is being artificially inflated by private lenders, who give hundreds of thousands of dollars to anyone with a heartbeat and an admission letter. This results in tectonic pressure which will, eventually, jostle our fragile economy with unprecedented magnitude, resulting in unpredictable, novel, and extremely detrimental effects. Some refer to this as a “bubble” which will “pop,” but bubbles imply whimsical innocence. This is a very real threat. Earthquakes are a better metaphor.
3.) Everything that Sir Ken Robinson says is true. read more
