Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sand castles and pipe dreams

"... The two disillusioned attorneys were victims of an unfolding education hoax on the middle class that's just as insidious, and nearly as sweeping, as the housing debacle. The ingredients are strikingly similar, too: Misguided easy-money policies that are encouraging the masses to go into debt; a self-serving establishment trading in half-truths that exaggerate the value of its product; plus a Wall Street money machine dabbling in outright fraud as it foists unaffordable debt on the most vulnerable marks..."
The Great College Hoax
Comment: Easy money policies provoke malinvestment, and this also includes higher education.

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