Student Loan Programs

Here is a little from a NY Times editorial about the student loan program.  Interesting example of how the rules of a particular industry get written. This industry may hit a little closer to home than railroads or shipping. Private companies that reap undeserved profits from the federal student-loan program are gearing up to kill [...]

Ashoka and Changemaker resources

Here are the links to what I used in class. Youth Venture. Provides raw material for… (also here.) Full Economic Citizenship as a goal or mission. Needs a financial innovation. The HVAC More on HVAC. An example of the HVAC in action in Mexico with small farmers. Enjoy! Bonus: History of the Internet as it [...]

What is wrong here?

“Retention bonuses” would seem to be bonuses by any other name.  Obviously, public and political scrutiny is at super high levels as we reel from the financial crisis. This little nugget caught my eye about a joint venture between Citigroup and Morgan Stanley: According to the newspaper [The WSJ], not all of the joint venture’s [...]