I am graduating in a week with my M.A. in criminology……I am glad that I no longer have to worry about research projects, exams, etc, however, my new worry now is repaying my loans….I want to explore all my options, including the so-called new obama repayment plans. Unfortunately, I appers nobody knows much about it. [...]
I think this personal cost to me should be paid for too. Even by those who don’t own or drive a car!
Kind of like forcing those who don’t care to have health care insurance to pay for those who do, isn’t;t it?
ok, so rumor has it that Obama plans to give college students money ($5000)? is this true and if so, how do we get it/ what are the requirements for getting said money??
-broke college kid.
The gov has taken over the student loan program and cut out the banks. Have the repayment interest rates gone up for students ?
Remember when the Stock Market was a record high of over 14,400 under President Bush, now it never creeps up above 10,200.
Do the math before you blame Bush, and remember before you make a fool of yourselves that the market began to crash when the Dems took control of the Congress, and has dropped [...]
Reacting to the election of a socialist anti-business President the stock market has reacted by losing 10% of it’s value in the 2 days after his election. That’s not a very good vote of confidence is it?
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Since we’re undergoing a dramatic revisiting of the financial industry I thought we could brainstorm a few ideas about what would be good improvements to our personal finance law to help retirees and savers:
1. Increase FDIC insurance limit to 500k
2. Increase 401k contributions to 75-100k a year
3. Increase Roth IRA/IRA contributions to 10k a [...]
The stock market continues to decline as Obama makes one mistake after the other but instead of getting rid of the sec of the treasury and letting capitalism work he now favors giving tax dollars for Fiat. Any cost for Chrysler should be paid by mercedes for their bad handling of Chrysler.
Increase the cost of tuition? The availability of money has a direct effect on the cost of goods like cars, homes and other loans. Part of the cause of the housing bubble was incredibly cheap mortgages that drove up the cost of housing.
Will this cause an education bubble where college costs double over [...]
My finance teacher said that President Obama made a law declaring student loans forgiven after 20 years. Is this true?