When you find something you’re really passionate about it’s easy to lose sight of a greater goal and take a short cut. Perhaps you want to get into Harvard and cheat on your SATs to get in. Or something less serious like taking out store credit to buy that new iPad you wanted to pay [...]

Law school used to be considered a ticket to the good life. Getting into law school was hard and graduates would go on to have lucrative careers and be well-respected members of society. I’m not sure if that fantasy was ever a reality, but it certainly helped increase demand for law schools over the last [...]

A peaceful resolution to the Euro crisis: As of right now this is the biggest issue facing the developed world.  As scary as this crisis might be, we’ve come a long way since WWII. Enough turnover in Congress to make them more able to enable legislation: At this point I don’t really care which party [...]

Yesterday, a couple of financial blogs linked to a wall post on Reddit, a website that last I saw was where you go to see cool links to stuff, not where people post anonymous rants.  The Reddit post claims to be written by someone who works on Wall Street.  They go off on a long [...]

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This week Obama announced a more aggressive version of his original plan to help people saddled with student loan debt.  The details are pretty simple, under the new plan you won’t have to pay more than 10% of your income towards student loans and after 20 years of doing that whatever else you owe is [...]

This weekend, Bill and Melinda Gates published an article in the Wall Street Journal about the efforts of their foundation to improve education in the US. The foundation does a lot of things, and this article focused on how the proper measurement of what makes for a great teacher is critical to the future of [...]

In most cases, a good education is the most important foundation to a successful life.  We’re taught this by parents, and economists regularly corroborate it with statistics showing lower unemployment rates and better incomes for people with greater education. But of course we are regularly reminded of dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, but [...]