Report: Average student loan balance is now $34,144 up 149 percent since 2007

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Originally Posted by Valhallian

Sorry but I gotta call BS on this one. I got a JD and it's an absolute ripoff.

I think higher education is overrated personally. Government loans (like the ones I took out for law school) allow education institutions to artificially inflate their prices. Students go into 6 figure debt to essentially make working class income.

Make no mistake the student loan crisis is going to be the next big one.

the next? it's already the biggest one IMO.

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Originally Posted by BicoastalAnn

I didn't see your original point so wasn't trying to address that part of it. Oddly enough I have met a fair amount of M.D.s going into business and some in Wall Street (wouldn't try to claim the number is significant). Guess it depends on how much money they can make after or how happy they are doing it.

No there is not a fair amount of people who go through all the trouble of medical school in order to get a job with Wall Street. No doubt some get disgusted with the regulations government puts on them or they just don't like their job and they quit but right out of school? No way.