Data vs. emotion: Student loan forgiveness is a bad, bad idea
Will a bunch of numbers (often misunderstood) really change someone’s entrenched beliefs? Er, no. Continue Reading
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Guest Post: Managing student loan debt
How can you pipe down your student debt? I let some of my peeps in the content ecosystem tackle it. Continue Reading
Student loans will mentally devastate you
I just paid Installment No. 1 of my graduate school student loans two days ago. I hit “Submit” on that online form, basically muttered to myself “Here we go…,” realized it was probably another 30 years until I’d be totally… Continue Reading
How to save more money: start by feeling more powerful, and thinking that power is connected to savings
So says new research from the Stanford PhD dissertation of Emily Garbinsky: Through a series of five experiments, the authors showed that feeling powerful — defined as having control over valuable resources — is a pleasant state that individuals are… Continue Reading
Here’s how you shave some money off the $1.1 trillion budget: penis pumps
Don’t worry; the video is safe for work. Between 2006 and 2011, the U.S. covered 474,000 claims for penis pumps. The total bill was $172 million (yes, that’s not a typo). If the government had simply paid the price that… Continue Reading
This one paragraph essentially summarizes one of America’s biggest challenges today
More than a third of American colleges and universities have deteriorating finances, according to a 2012 report. While more Americans find that a college degree is their only ticket to the middle class, fewer institutions are able to provide it at… Continue Reading