Showing posts with label student debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student debt. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2020

89% of Federal student loans ARE NOT being paid back right now

 According to this CNBC article, from October 7th, only 11% of people with federal student loans are paying those loans back, on time, right now.  Due to the forebearance offer, 89% of people are not paying back their federal student loans.  So what happens to the SLABS investments being funded by the payments of those millions of student loans (see previous post)?  Good question.

Update: July 16, 2021

 So... the Fed has continued to drop "helicopter money," though not as much as last year, to prop up the economy as a whole.  Asse...