I’m a spreadsheet jockey, so I’ve always managed my finances with Excel. But I’m not typical. There’s an interesting new, free service called Tuition.io that helps student borrowers manage their debt. Graduates may end up with several different types of federal, private, and parent loans that have different terms and repayment schedules, and that’s hard to… [Read More]
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Paying for College: Laura Laing and I Take on Good Debt, Bad Debt, and Student Loans
Laura Laing (left) is the author of Math for Grownups (Adams Media, 2011). She has also been writing about college costs recently, and she and I have put together this joint post Economists recognize that debt can be good. It smoothes out consumption over a lifecycle, they say; if most people had to save up… [Read More]
