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Category Archive: Student Loans

  1. PRIVATE STUDENT LOANSTHE LIQUIDITY CRISIS SPREADS" rel="bookmark">PRIVATE STUDENT LOANSTHE LIQUIDITY CRISIS SPREADS

    Today the New York Times pub­lished an arti­cle titled Agency in Mass­a­chu­setts Is Stop­ping Col­lege Loans. Accord­ing to the arti­cle approx­i­mately 40,000 stu­dents that either live or attend school in Mass­a­chu­setts are just find­ing out that the Mass­a­chu­setts Edu­ca­tion Financ­ing Author­ity (“MEFA”) isn’t going to be pro­vid­ing financ­ing for tuition bills that were due in […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, Credit Crisis, Finance, New York Times, Student Loans
  2. PRIVATE STUDENT LOANSTHE FALL SURPRISE FOR MORE THAN 1 MILLION STUDENTS" rel="bookmark">PRIVATE STUDENT LOANSTHE FALL SURPRISE FOR MORE THAN 1 MILLION STUDENTS

    As mil­lions of fam­i­lies know, sum­mer is col­lege “tuition time”. Unfor­tu­nately, it is esti­mated that over 1 mil­lion kids are about to encounter a rude awak­en­ing; the stu­dent lender that they are count­ing won’t be there for them. Because of the credit cri­sis and the melt­down of the cap­i­tal mar­kets, many inde­pen­dent pri­vate stu­dent lenders are […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Credit Crisis, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK, Student Loans