But putting them in context requires thinking separately about the ideas of a "student loan bubble" and an "education bubble." First, one thing that's important about the possible student loan bubble ...

First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad? Some ...

How do you know when a sector of the economy is in a "bubble"? Well, one of the signs is when everyone starts talking about it being a bubble. With higher education, everyone knows that some kind of ...

Editor’s Note: In the debate over the value of higher education, few have been as outspoken as Peter Thiel and Vivek Wadhwa. Recognized as innovators in their own right, Thiel and Wadhwa have dug in ...

The good news is Latinos are enrolling in college at record rates. The bad news is this means that when the education funding bubble bursts, it is likely to send devastating shock waves throughout the ...

Malcolm Harris at N+1 argues that higher education is headed for a popped-bubble reckoning on the order of the recent real estate apocalypse. It’s a tempting analogy—I’ve To be sure, there are many ...

Timothy Smith writes The Echo Boom Bomb, a blog featuring financial, economic and socioeconomic analysis of the Millennial generation (also known as Echo Boom Generation or Generation Y). The Echo ...

Are we stuck in a higher-ed bubble? Some college insiders are offering persuasive arguments that we are. Reminiscent of the recent stock market and real estate bubbles, escalating college prices are ...

Conservatives once proudly stood, in William F. Buckley’s words, “athwart history, yelling Stop.” This posture led them to befriend defenders of liberal education like Allan Bloom, author of Closing ...

Education is not just a building block of society. It is more than a public good and a public right. It is also a commodity. Like a new car or a house or a dozen eggs, a quality education above and ...

The overwhelming cultural consensus of the post-WWII generation was that if you are middle-class, then you simply must own your own home and your children must go to college. Out of that cultural ...

First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad? Some ...