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Proposal To Deal With Student Loan Debt Problem: Stop The Loans


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2019 Apr 20, 10:13pm   1,137 views  8 comments

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When we talk about “inflation,” we generally mean to denote a general rise in consumer prices; but, properly understood, that is the result of inflation, not inflation itself. Inflation itself is an increase in the money supply, and its effects need not necessarily be general. You can inflate the money supply by printing money, but you can also do it by expanding credit. Our friends at the National Association of Realtors and other charter members of the Committee to Reinflate the Housing Bubble, for example, have a keen understanding of the relationship between loosey-goosey mortgage-lending standards and brisk sales in the face of rising housing prices (and rising commissions). Your local new- or used-car dealer knows that he can charge higher prices for vehicles that are to be financed by people who care more about their monthly payment than about the total cost. There are some critics of the federal response to the 2008–09 financial crisis who believe that the recent run-up in the stock markets and the prices of other assets is fundamentally the result of inflation through quantitative easing and other measures. (You don’t have to believe that that was a necessarily bad policy to believe that this is true, incidentally.) Easy credit contributes to higher prices.

If you make a few gazillion dollars available to finance tuition payments with underwriting standards a little bit lower than those of the average pawn shop, you create a lot of potential tuition inflation. Another way of saying this is that if Uncle Stupid puts a trillion bucks on the table, there are enough smart people at Harvard to figure out a way to pick it up.

So, let’s cut the Gordian knot here. Don’t reform student lending, don’t try to lower the interest rates or create special debt subsidies for college graduates who follow careers of which the people with political power approve. Just get rid of it. With a meat ax.

There are lots of smart people at the universities. Or so we’re told. If they can’t figure out how to teach the liberal arts or accounting without dipping into the Bank of Uncle Stupid with both hands and all available snouts, then maybe somebody else should give it a try.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/eliminate-federal-student-loans/

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1   HeadSet   2019 Apr 20, 10:51pm  

If you make a few gazillion dollars available to finance tuition payments with underwriting standards a little bit lower than those of the average pawn shop, you create a lot of potential tuition inflation.

Potential? Just "potential?" Easy loans caused tuition to skyrocket.
2   komputodo   2019 Apr 21, 7:19am  

Did you forget about lobbyists and PACs?
3   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Apr 22, 12:16pm  

Stop the student loans so most people can't get in college.
Predictable results:
- Americans are more uneducated than other nations
- some colleges go bankrupts, other cut budgets, pay packages, lose key people...
- key research will not be done in the US but probably in China.

And yeah... that would lower college costs.... That sounds great.
4   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Apr 22, 12:20pm  

Money supply is there to pump up assets prices for the rich.
Most industries can't raise prices, so they keep commoditized staff payed a poverty wage.
2-3 industries requiring educated people are forced to pay full inflated price.
This is not a problem of loans: it is the entire system around it: trade, immigration, constant deficits, the need of debt to make up for lost income, etc, etc....
5   HeadSet   2019 Apr 22, 12:33pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Stop the student loans so most people can't get in college.
Predictable results:
- Americans are more uneducated than other nations
- some colleges go bankrupts, other cut budgets, pay packages, lose key people...
- key research will not be done in the US but probably in China.

And yeah... that would lower college costs.... That sounds great.


Not so. Colleges will want to stay open and people will want to attend. College costs will fall by cutting fat like diversity departments and putting produced liberal arts courses on-line. With lower costs students can work their way through, and we would see more sponsorships. Endowments would be used to give scholarships rather than be hoarded or used to build monuments to the Chancellor. Also, cutting the dumbed down courses designed to accommodate those loans receivers who are not really college material would prompt more to go into trade schools rather than get worthless degrees for the sake of being a college grad.
6   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Apr 22, 12:43pm  

Yeah, like 60% of Americans couldn't come up with $2000 for an emergency but they're supposed to pay up-front for college.
Let's remove 2/3 of peoples for the education pool. After all, all poor kids must be dumb....
Or they'll get some pseudo education varnish online.

Colleges will cut fat and go from $30K/year to $25K/yrs. That is not gonna cut it.
7   Bd6r   2019 Apr 22, 12:53pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Yeah, like 60% of Americans couldn't come up with $2000 for an emergency but they're supposed to pay up-front for college.
Let's remove 2/3 of peoples for the education pool. After all, all poor kids must be dumb....
Or they'll get some pseudo education varnish online.

Colleges will cut fat and go from $30K/year to $25K/yrs. That is not gonna cut it.

Limit federally-backed loans to 10K per year and inflation adjust the amount every year. This should be sufficient.
8   Blue   2019 Apr 22, 1:45pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Stop the student loans so most people can't get in college.
Predictable results:
- Americans are more uneducated than other nations
- some colleges go bankrupts, other cut budgets, pay packages, lose key people...
- key research will not be done in the US but probably in China.

And yeah... that would lower college costs.... That sounds great.


Those are the great points. If more people are educated it help to create better community.
Supporting only market driven education and pull the plug completely on the others could lead to adverse effects in the country. Its not a good idea run a country and/or universities like a profit seeking company either. If things are on the wrong tract, reform the policy for greater benefit to the community.

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