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The student-loan scam
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[quote:icey ice 221873:MV8zNzExODVfNTk4NDM4N184RkIyNzgwMA==] Plan B: step 1: open course ware at MIT online and anywhere else you can find effective information (won't get you a degree, but will give you the education of a degreed wage slave) step 2: after gathering some chump change from working menial jobs, start your own companies (no it doesn't take alot) step 3: you decide sidestep the extortionists and they will go out of business. unfortunately, it's hosted by government controllers so it's hard to circumvent their propaganda machines. [/quote]
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...Securities and Exchange Commission documents revealing that financial aid directors at three prominent universities — as well as a senior official at the U.S. Education Department — each had significant personal investments in a private student-loan company
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Every company wants to be a college's "preferred lender," competing fiercely to get on such lists. But the dirty little secret of the guaranteed student-loan market is how concentrated it is: Only 32 lenders hold 90% of the loan volume. What's more, the Education Department has found that at about 300 colleges, one lender controls 99% of the loan volume — essentially holding a monopoly on those campuses.
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This is so wrong on every level. Students saddled with high-interest loans and the directors taking kick-backs to work in the lender's best interest not the student's.
Unreal
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