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The higher education bubble personified. From Friday's New York Times , Again, Debt Disqualifies Applicant From the Bar . Excerpt: [A] ...

In previous posts (e.g., this one , this one , etc.) I've questioned the benefits of higher education and speculated that it might be th...

A CNN Money article today lists the most lucrative undergraduate degrees (see the graphic above) and notes that, unsurprisingly, they all r...

The last post ( on Joshua Persky ) reminded me of another unusual job searching tack that generated national publicity, Robin Stearns's ...

In the previous post on the Sonic situation in Northern NJ, I mentioned the late author David Foster Wallace , who was known for his well-re...

Cue the world's smallest violin for Walter Kirn while you read these excerpts from his column in today's New York Times Magazine ( ...

The July/August Atlantic magazine offers this modest collection of brief essays, on ideas that range from reasonable to stupid, "15 Wa...

Dr. Mark Perry has blogged about this before, but since I haven't mentioned it here before, it's worth noting his most recent post o...

The Styles section of Sunday's New York Times featured an article about Unithrive , an organization founded by the three Harvard alumni...

In the Chronicle of Higher Education , Joseph Cronin and Howard Horton ask, "Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?" ...

In a couple of recent posts (e.g., "Lessons from Brooklyn's New Economy" and "An Atypical Perspective on Health Care in ...

In a post on October 1st ( "The Next Bubble to Burst in the Deleveraging Process: Higher Education?" ) I wrote, Like housing, spen...

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that laid off investment banker Joshua Persky (the fellow on the right in the photo above) l...

On October 1 st I speculated that higher education could be the next bubble to burst in the deleveraging process ( "The Next Bubble to...