United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

by Marian Wang: Much like the mortgage market, the market for private student loans has gone through a big boom and a messy bust. Some banks and lenders played fast and loose with student loans, aggressively marketing them to borrowers who couldn't afford that amount of debt, ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 18, 2016

By Ben Cohen: To get ahead in life, going to college has traditionally provided the surest way of creating career opportunities. An academic or skills based education opens doors to high paying work, and the better the college, usually, the better the job. What has happened in ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018