Via Bloomberg: The average cost of attending a four- year for-profit college surpassed expenses at both U.S. state and private nonprofit universities, a government report found. Full-time students paid an average of $30,900 annually at the for-profit schools in the 2007-2008 academic year, almost double the $15,600 average paid at public universities, according to U.S. […]
Graduation time at Mason has been one of the best times on my job. This is a time of the year we all look forward to. Students with smiley faces and beaming optimism, and joy-filled parents – the euphoria is contagious. It is also a moment of pride for all the faculty. The pride is […]
This insider trading case is just a tip of the iceberg. It is a tell-tale story of an illegal web of well connected Ivy League business school graduates with no ethics or morals rigging the system to their advantage. In social circles, we see these sociopaths claiming to be crème de la crème, when in fact many of them are perfume coated turds.
The Indian community in the US and around the world is shocked by the untimely death of four Indian students at University of Missouri, Rolla. Sunday morning, a group of five headed to the Lake of the Ozarks to do some shopping, maybe even for some of their family back home. “One of the students […]
This is getting ridiculous from the right wingers. They need a serious brain surgery that stops them to talk negatively about the whole Bin Laden killing mission. Obama was clear in his thinking about going after Bin Laden all the way back in 2008. In 2008, second presidential debate McCain was trying to fool us […]
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Here is a summary of scathing report published in Barron’s on for-profit colleges. (Via Wall Street Cheat Sheet) On Sunday April 24, 2011, 10:31 pm EDT The barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once the American economy (NYSE:SPY) has proved to bear little fruit for recent college graduates. It seems that the avaricious, aggressively credit-dispensing financial […]
This is a bit dated news (from June 2010), which I keep forgetting to post here. Hedge fund manager, Steve Eisman gave a scathing testimony to congress on the pervasive fraud by major for-profit profit outfits (I refuse to call them universities). It is true that as a person who is short the stocks of […]
Anil was my senior in college. He is the founder and CEO of a technology company based in California. He recently posted the following on his facebook: “The healthcare system is completely and ridiculously broken especially for small businesses. We get a renewal price increase of 35%+ with 20% less coverage every year. What is […]
The thieves Wall Street crying foul on too much regulation. The thugs on the Hill are are crying about the wolf there never was and not even imminent. Nothing has ever been fixed. In fact, the financial problems were made much worse by Grahm-Dodd regulation. Then, WTF is “that too much regulation” those idiots are […]
Here is how the lobbying works in Washington DC (Via Huffington Post): Last week, a bipartisan group of House members pushed for a rider in the spending bill that would block the Department of Education from implementing rules that would punish certain for-profit college and community college programs for saddling students with debts they cannot […]
[Phoenix Capital Research, Via Zero Hedge.] This is a chart of the US monetary base. In simple terms, it charts how much money the Fed has pumped into the system (at least that it admits). So it’s a kind of visual of the Fed hitting the PANIC button: when the monetary base explodes higher, the […]
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I faced some criticism for my interview with Manchu Lakshmi broadcast on TORi on March 11, 2011. On another occasion, I will write explain my philosophy and methods about how an interview should be conducted. But, for now I would say one thing – I am inspired by the way Jon Stewart does his interviews […]
Update: Damaging e-mails accusing Bank of America’s fraud have been released. The market yawned. Thismay be much ado about nothing. But… This year Hacker Collective Anonymous has already brought down a purported web-security firm – HBGary. And now they declared this “war” on Banksters. Apparently the Anonymous are threatening to release some nasty information about […]
