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How Does A 10-Year Bitcoin Investment Stack Up Against A 21-Year Student Loan? Here's What The Math Says
Monday, September 2, 2024 - 7:59am | 491Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has been aggressively marketed by its proponents as a tool for building personal wealth in the long term. Their argument has been bolstered by the top cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise over the last decade, during which it has outperformed mainstream financial assets such...
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Appeals Court Blocks Biden's SAVE Student Loan Debt Relief Plan
Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 4:30pm | 454A federal appeals court has blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing its Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) student debt relief plan. The Details: The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven states to put on hold parts of the...
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Sports Betting To Pay Off Student Loans? New Trend Takes Over TikTok
Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 6:42pm | 825New legalized states and additional betting options have led to more users turning to the world of sports betting. Though sports betting can result in big wins, it also entails losses and valuable lessons. Several people on social media quickly learned that sports betting may not be for everyone....
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The White House And Dave Portnoy Clap Back At Members Of Congress Criticizing Biden's Student Loan Plan
Friday, August 26, 2022 - 4:13pm | 1005A plan from President Joe Biden to cut student loan debt has divided the country with some feeling happy and others mad. Among those speaking out against the plan are members of Congress, who feel Biden is being unfair. The official Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) account of The White House clapped...
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Got A Portfolio That Can't Be Beat? Webull Will Give You A Tesla Or Pay Down Your Student Loans If You Prove It
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 12:03pm | 744Beginning October 7, 2019, veteran and novice retail traders alike are invited to participate in the WeTrader Paper Trading Competition. For the uninitiated, paper trading is an entirely simulated investing tool that traders use to experiment with complex and novel trading strategies with zero risk...
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What Would You Give Up To Get Out Of Debt?
Monday, April 8, 2019 - 10:35am | 905The government shutdown may have ended in January, but it’s highly likely that some of the nearly one million government employees affected are still feeling the financial ramifications. That’s because for many Americans, it’s becoming harder and harder to simultaneously save and...
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Amazon, Wells Fargo End Short-Lived Partnership Offering Discount Student Loans
Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 11:24am | 377Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) have ended their student loan partnership, just over a month after its announcement, according to a report on Bloomberg. Bloomberg cited Catherine Pulley, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, as saying Wednesday that the "promotion for...
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Government Financing Of Higher Education Leaves Millions Of Americans Worse Off
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 10:18am | 394A large part of the government’s investment in higher education over the past 15 years may have done more harm than good. According to a new report by the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Mitchell, many Americans who have taken advantage of government-financed grants, low-interest loans and...
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4 Ways To Reduce Or Eliminate Private Student Loan Debt
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 2:17pm | 486Many college students don’t fully realize the type of financial burden they are taking on when they take out thousands of dollars in private student loans. While there are a handful of federal student loan forgiveness programs, and qualified teachers and public workers can also get relief...
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Dormant Debt Epidemic Leaves Afflicted Financially Unprepared
Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 11:27am | 631There is a debt plague affecting the nation. Forty million Americans are burdened by this strain of debt and a colossal $1.2 trillion drained because of it. The epidemic is growing. Over the last decade, there has been a 325 percent increase in documented cases. While the contagion is in and of...
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Obama Goes Full-Court Press With Plans To Reduce Student Debt
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 3:54pm | 497The Obama Administration is devoting much of this week to making student loans more affordable and less of a crushing financial burden for both students and their families. President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order that will allow millions of college and university graduates to...
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Filing Taxes? Have Student Loan Debt? Uncle Sam Has A Message For You
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 2:58pm | 606If you or someone you know has student loan debt, it is probably not an insignificant amount of money. According to CNN, the average student loan debt for the class of 2012 was $29,400. That much debt is not good for you – or for the economy. As a result, the U.S. Department of Education and...
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Revisiting Student Loans: Societal Tension and Portension
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:00pm | 2497With respect to student loans, it is as if for those who know where to look, the writing is on the wall. Given recent political events and ongoing political dialogue, let's revisit the issue of student loans.I. Should there be a student loan bailout?CNBC's Kelly Evans discussed on April 25, 2012...