Financial Planning

Event Honoring Late DJ Mark Kamins Tonight

Mark Kamins was an influential Dj at '80s clubs like Danceteria, and as a DJ/producer he was instrumental in helping launch Madonna's career.

Rand Paul Addresses Rightbloggers, Who Receive Him Well, Despite All Those Black People Getting in the Way

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke at historically black Howard University last week, and it was a major event. No, he didn't seem to win any black votes for the GOP -- even his fans admit as much. But white people of the rightblogger variety were all over it, and that's what counts. Some ... More >>

Is Exposing Racist A-Holes OK If Those Racist A-Holes Are High School Kids?

As we reported earlier, there's a racist "tweet" war waging against re-elected President Barack Obama. The words "nigger" and "monkey" are popular slurs directed at the president by presumably white morons who are upset that they must endure four more years of Obama (gasp!).But many of these racist ... More >>

For The Record: Here's What Obama Has Done

2016: Obama's America is a conservative glimpse at the alleged horror of the Obama Presidency, looking ahead to what shambles America will supposedly be in if he's reelected. And people are lining up to see it! The film made over six million last week--practically the same amount as the Joseph Gor ... More >>

Student Loans Become Even More Burdensome, Starting Sunday

If you're a student or former student with educational debt, or if you're just someone made anxious by this country's $1-trillion-and-growing student-debt bubble, you may well have breathed a sigh of relief this week when Congress reached an 11th-hour agreement to avoid doubling the interest rate on ... More >>

Student Loans: Yes, There's Even More Bad News

Hey, college students! If you weren't already bummed that 53 percent of you will likely face joblessness or underemployment upon graduation, or that university is a big waste of time and money, we have even more bad news for you. Unless Congress gets its shit together -- which it probably won't b ... More >>

Obama, Schumer and the Student Loan Armaggedon

Over 7 million students receive some sort of subsidized student loan from the U.S. federal government. That is a ton of debt and it's getting larger every year: eclipsing credit cards and car loans, the figure right now stands at around $870 billion nationally. And, on July 1st, it could double ... More >>

Obama to Grad Students: Pay Up

To save student-loan programs, the White House has saddled master's and Ph.D. candidates with added debt.

Will Student Defaults on Loans Bring Down the U.S. Economy?

Dawn of the debt

John Liu, With the New School, Proposes Pension Plan to Address Retirement Crisis

​City Comptroller John Liu, staying focused on official business and not his ongoing campaign finance controversy, unveiled a new pension plan this morning designed to target what he says is a growing retirement crisis in New York City. Here's the problem, according to Liu, an expected 2013 mayo ... More >>

NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

Obama in NYC With Al Sharpton: Student Loans Suck

​Amid desperate budget negotiations and a looming government shutdown, President Barack Obama came to New York City last night to speak at the twentieth-anniversary party for Al Sharpton's National Action Network. At the gala, Obama focused on the issue of education inequality, but only after ... More >>

Smart Money, Huh? American Student-Loan Debt Now Greater Than American Credit Card Debt

​Hey, creditors, leave those kids alone! All along, it turns out, they were just another brick in the massive wall of student-loan debt Americans have now acquired which -- fun fact! -- has now surpassed American credit card debt, reports to the Wall Street Journal. Which is how much, exactly? ... More >>

MTA Meets the People, Before Deciding on New Reasons to Hate Them.

​You think your morning commute sucked? Imagine taking the subway to go talk to the MTA this morning.

WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July 2011!

​As the Wall Street Journal hurries to ready Project Amsterdam, Rupert Murdoch's bid to rock the New York Times dead with a big, splashy color metropolitan section before he kicks the bucket, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil. Which sucks, because they just got their new uni ... More >>

Madoff's CFO Pleads Guilty; Faces 125 Years

Bernie Madoff's longtime finance chief pled guilty in federal court this afternoon to helping his boss carry out a $65 million dollar Ponzi scheme. The accountant, Frank DiPascali, had been employed at Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities for more than three decades. He was responsible for manag ... More >>

Financial Aid Update: Mostly, More Money for Students

The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

Up is Dow; Dow is up

Signs of the Great Depression

A Loan and Afraid

Student Loan Xploited

Columbia reels after stock allegations.

Get Into Debt Fast: Tips for Last-Minute Student Loans

John Boehner: Yet Another Lobbying Slut?

The new House Majority Leader is not quite the 'reformer' he claims

Shady Sallie

An inside look at what Bush has done to your student loan

Pensions: Why All You Whipper-Snappers Are Walking to Work

Sick Transit

The NYC subway-bus strike and the slow death of the American pension system

Bush's Speech Today Ignores Cold Winter

Touting more tax cuts, President ignores bitter situation for most Americans

Robin Hoods

Student activists trying to take from banks, give to the needy with the National Tuition Endowment

Uncle Sam vs. James Lockhart

Supreme Court hears appeal of elderly, sick man dunned for student loans

Loan Wolf

House bill makes largest cuts ever in student aid

Morning Report 7/31/05
Missed Connections

Johnny Comes Marching Home to Loans

Think joining the army will clear your student debt? Better check the fine print.

Bush Warms Up to Bill

Ex-president now a social security blanket for the current president

Greed Aid

Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you

Borrow More Now! Pay More Later!

Bush's big plan for sticking it to us again

Bush's Mandate From Above

From Security to Risk in One Easy Bush Plan

President trades American promise for a Wall Street gamble

But Boot Camp Is Still Free

Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college

Your Mi$ery I$ Their Profit

Up to your ear$ in $tudent loan$? That'$ good new$ for the bond trader$

The Ambition Tax

Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

The Student Loan Blues

Letters

What’s Wrong With 401(k)'s?

Brokers Get Rich. The Rich Get Tax Breaks. And the Little Guy Gets No Pension.

Letters

Nation

Nation

Enron Adds Insult to Injury

Energy Trader Deducts 401(k) From Severance Checks

Shrub's First Big Crisis

Retirement Funds Melt as Wall Street Stumbles

No Exit

Feds break out the hired guns to nab student-loan jumpers