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Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply (Medical News Today)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:32 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage." "Tuition and fees at public medical schools, after all, have shot up 133 percent since 1990, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. ...
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Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply (News-Medical-Net)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:43:04 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage."
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UCSB Takes a Swing at Sallie Mae (Santa Barbara Independent)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:10:31 GMT
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Loan lender effigy to be bludgeoned by student volunteers.
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CIT closes on $667 million securitization (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:21:45 GMT
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CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender that emerged from bankruptcy protection late last year, said Thursday that it closed a $667 million equipment lease securitization.
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Discover Financial Services Announces Actions to Further Enhance Loan Loss Reserve (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:56:00 GMT
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RIVERWOODS, Ill.----Discover Financial Services today announced that the company will record an increase in reserves of $305 million pre-tax in the first quarter 2010, which brings its reserve coverage to approximately twelve months of losses.
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Defaults on student loans rising (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:01 GMT
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Every year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
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Dealing with student-loan debt (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:21 GMT
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• Seek help early. If you lose your job, consider asking your lender right away about options to lower or postpone monthly payments. A lot of people wait until it's too late and the overdue notices pile up.
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Defaults on student loans rising (The Arizona Republic)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:05:42 GMT
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Advocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages.
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Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - March 10, 2010 (MalaysiaNews.net)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:11 GMT
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See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv...
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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Sallie Mae's Jets: Bank Shills Use "Socialism" Scare to Shaft Students, Serve the Wealthy (The Huffington Post)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:12:34 GMT
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One of Sallie Mae's corporate jets: Model IAI-1125A Astra SPX, registration #N188AK Two noted shills for the banking industry - Republican Lamar Alexander and...
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