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Housing Wealth and College Affordability

By | 08.31.10 | 6:26 pm

Cornell economist Michael Lovenheim has an amazing study of the impact of housing wealth on college affordability and attendance (PDF).

Subprime Lenders Back in the Game, Reworking Loans

By | 07.20.09 | 9:32 am

Did you ever wonder where all those subprime lenders who made big profits making predatory loans during the housing boom ended up? Think about it: What kind of resume would you have, given that you worked for a discredited company that went out of business after making high-rate, abusive loans More…