Category: Education

  • The One Trillion Dollar Question

    The One Trillion Dollar Question

    It doesn’t take a college degree to appreciate the looming student debt crisis. Student loans are now the second largest source of individual indebtedness in the US, between mortgage and credit card debt. The table below demonstrates the current state of individual debt in the US as of early 2014. The amounts, taken from multiple sources,…

  • The Real Cost of College Education

    The Real Cost of College Education

    Let’s examine two sets of numbers if for nothing else, for being probably the largest and most important and the largest single investment in our life. With an eye to college education expenditure, over a period of 4 years how does it fare against what we perceive as the most important single investment   our home. In the past 40…