The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe - Josh Mitchell Audiobook
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From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the dramatic, untold story of student debt in America.
In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company’s financial documents to review. “You’ve got to be shitting me,” he later told the company’s CEO. “This place is a gold mine.”
Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans into $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the untold story of the scandals, scams, predatory actors, and government malpractice that have created the behemoth that one of its original architects called a “monster.”
The tale begins in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik. Afraid that America was falling behind the Soviets in science education, Congress created the first major federal student loan program to enroll more students in college. What followed were a series of well-intentioned government actions that created a cycle of reckless lending and runaway tuition. Easy access to loans allowed colleges to raise tuition to unheard of levels, which in turn led Congress to increase loan limits and interest rates and expand who could borrow. This spiral continued as the private banks that fronted the money made huge profits on interest. “Nobody was pure in this business,” one former college president said.
As he charts the gripping seventy-year history of student debt in America, Mitchell never loses sight of the countless student victims ensnared by an exploitive system that depends on their debt. Mitchell also draws alarming parallels to the housing crisis in the late 2000s, showing the catastrophic consequences student debt has had on families and the nation’s future. Mitchell’s character-driven narrative is required reading for anyone wanting to understand the central economic issue of our day.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 3/5
August 25th, 2021
lol no refunds
August 25th, 2021
Suppose everyone had wealthy parents or a large inheritance. Problem solved.
Otherwise, debt seems to be the standard means.
Maybe the issue is what that student debt is used to pay for. A degree that was taken just to get through college as quickly as possible, or a challenging degree that’s necessary to build a foundation to enter an in-demand and better-compensated field.
August 25th, 2021
Suppose everyone had wealthy parents or a large inheritance. Problem solved.
Otherwise, debt seems to be the standard means.
Maybe the issue is what that student debt is used to pay for. A degree that was taken just to get through college as quickly as possible, or a challenging degree that’s necessary to build a foundation to enter an in-demand and better-compensated field.
Thank you
August 25th, 2021
They can’t pay off that arts degree on salary alone. Keep stuffing that tips jar when you pick up your latte.
August 25th, 2021
Lots of people laugh but looking at the young generations i feel for them, this is actually a really serious problem. However, everyone is content to just laugh at the youngster because it’s “their fault”. Whomever the fault lies with, this problem has a very very serious implication for ours and the world economy in the coming 30 years.
August 26th, 2021
@jnynapses
Due to absurd tuition fees you basically can’t easily pay off any degree other than engineering or medicine. That includes physics, bio, chem, math and everything else. Friend of mine has a PhD in bioinfomatics, which used to be a high paying field, and can’t pay it off. It’s what happens when we allow jobs done by graduates to be outsourced but don’t allow jobs done by the people educating those graduates to be outsourced. Well, that and Unis thinking they need to operate like cities.
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