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WSJ: "Student Loan Debt Hits Home for Bernanke"
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Date: February 29th, 2012 12:42 PM Author: gaped menage tank The most interesting anecdote to come out of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke‘s semiannual testimony to Congress: His son, who is in medical school in New York, is likely to rack up $400,000 of student loan debt in the process of getting his degree.
The rapid growth of U.S. student loan debt, Mr. Bernanke said, required “careful oversight” from regulators.
The student loan tidbit wasn’t the only piece of “regular guy” information Mr. Bernanke divulged in today’s hearing. He also said he does his own grocery shopping.
As the Wall Street Journal reported in December, Mr. Bernanke has a $672,000 mortgage on the three bedroom townhouse he owns near Capitol Hill. He has refinanced that mortgage two times, most recently last September. Fortunately for him, his income-generating capacity is high, considering the book and speaking fees he has the potential to command when his term at the Fed is up in 2014. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/02/29/student-loan-debt-hits-home-for-bernanke/ |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:34 PM Author: Brass sadistic crackhouse mental disorder lol wtf, Bernanke can't afford to pay for his son's schooling? lol @ this shitboomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083548) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:38 PM Author: citrine comical bawdyhouse There's no way he can't afford it. This is an example of the shitboomer ethos of "I paid for my own education and so can you." Meanwhile, the shitboomer's education cost $2k for four years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083566) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:39 PM Author: Brass sadistic crackhouse mental disorder of course he can afford it. fuck SHITBOOMERS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083570) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:16 PM Author: lemon stirring hominid titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087299) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 1:33 AM Author: Coiffed kitty cat fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583428) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:40 PM Author: primrose marvelous background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083577) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:54 PM Author: lascivious wine ladyboy hunting ground <shitboomer who hires illegals to do all home repairs>
Well, you can just work in the trades then. Those guys make good money!
</shitboomer who hires illegals to do all home repairs>
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Date: February 29th, 2012 2:03 PM Author: citrine comical bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083754) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 7:48 AM Author: chocolate dopamine gunner 180 use of xml tags (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583950) |
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Date: September 16th, 2012 6:38 PM Author: Misunderstood Brethren Brunch 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21594836) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:11 PM Author: Ruddy personal credit line philosopher-king (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085020) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2012 3:45 PM Author: Nofapping supple point He's a cheap jew, what do u expect? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20106739) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:38 AM Author: razzmatazz crystalline whorehouse headpube lol at prejudiced artifact of double-assburger Sandwich poster. You are distinguished as as superior assfister (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583718) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 1:41 PM Author: lascivious wine ladyboy hunting ground Which school? I am guessing Columbia or Cornell just b/c of Dad's fame+connections. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083583) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 2:02 PM Author: Cerebral digit ratio pervert Rochester, hes a second year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083749) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 2:03 PM Author: lascivious wine ladyboy hunting ground Pretty weak for a breh with a famous dad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083760) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 2:05 PM Author: Cerebral digit ratio pervert totally made that shit up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20083773) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 5:50 PM Author: Light Aphrodisiac Field Athletic Conference nice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20084906) |
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Date: March 1st, 2012 1:52 PM Author: Mind-boggling nudist potus it's cornell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20098696) |
Date: February 29th, 2012 5:58 PM Author: yellow cruise ship IRATE BOOMERS COMMENTING:
Really, his father makes that much money and he didn’t teach his son how to manage his money. Bernanke shouldn’t be in his type of position if he can’t live debt free. People need to grow up and start learning how to live within their means. I had no loans when I graduated from college due to working and great parents that believed in budgeting. Get out and work.
I gotta think you are an idiot for spending more than 40k for an undergrad and I think that you have to be a bigger idiot to go and get a masters until you have actually been working in your field for at least 7 years.
Granted….there are some professions that are going to require very very specific training and others that even at an early level are going to want some type of advanced degree but for the vast majority of us it makes no sense to lever up on education the way these kids are.
My father, an orthopaedic surgeon, told me that all a college degree does is prove that you can finish something. He said that it is mainly an opportunity to spend four years improving yourself as a human being by broadening your understanding of the world. From his perspective, college was a priviledge and wonderful thing to have but not necessary for most careers.
ME….I make 200k a yr with a wife that makes 80k.
I NEVER GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE. Still have 3 classes to go and I fit them in when I can. My wife got her MBA from Boston University.
I went to a small state school in MA after 4 yrs in the army. With my GI bill and scholarships I took on a total of 6k in debt for the 3 years I attended full time. Since then, my employers have reimbursed me for each course I take. My wife’s MBA cost her parents well over 130k.
So, what did I do that allowed me to get to where I am WITHOUT a degree?
First, I had a top notch prep school education before I enlisted. Put another way, I can read, write well, have good reading comprehension and have some skill at mathmatics.
Second, I have worked regularly since I was 14 and started my own business cleaning private stables after school. I started my second business doing home repairs and landscaping as a 22 yr old sophmore in college where I built a big enough book of business selling door to door and on referals that I was running 6 crews within 5 months of starting the business. I sold that business to a more established firm for $100k at the end of my Junior yr when I was recruited out of school to work for a tech firm in Boston as a jr. programmer. I have not looked back since and now run $100 million dollar IT services contracts.
Third, I am always pushing my industry related skills higher and refreshing them. I have always scanned the want ads and look for the specific skills and certifications that employers are demanding or I see trending toward being a requirement then I go get them as fast as I can and I get my employers to pay for them. I hold a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, a PMP (working on PgMP), ITIL Intermediate (working toward Master), SCRUM Master and a series of others related to specific technologies.
Fourth (kinda goes to number 5) I never ever turn down a chance to do something new or take on a piece of work that others do not want to do. It has cost me years of doing 60 or 70 even 90 hr weeks. It has cost me spending as much as 200 nights a year on the road for multiple years in a row. It has meant doing drudge work and working with clients that others do not want to face. HOWEVER, the result is a resume’ full of ever increasing responsability and broad success accross an even broader set of industries. It means I have boat loads of practical experience that others who sat back do not.
Fifth, and likely the singel most important thing I have done, I deliver what my boss needs and my clients want. I do not whine. I do not complain. I just deliver and I do it consistently better than my peers. I put my boss and my clients in a position where they count on and need me to a point where they do not care or do not care to think about the fact that I do not have a degree. When they cannot fail and they know that I will deliver that is all that matters to them.
So now here I sit with no student debt and a very nice income for which I am most grateful.
When I listen to these stories about wha these kids are spending I just want to scream.
When I listen to these kids I want to tell them to stop, put down the books, get off your but, stop trying to buy a career with a new degreee AND JUST DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE THAT PEOPLE NEED. Go make money. WORK. Work really really hard and stop worrying about the useless and costly educational arms race.
I meet a cop the other day. She is a detective on a county police department. She has $140k in student debt. What the heck for? What could some academic teach you that you cannot learn on the street doing the job that could possibly be worth that kind of money? |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:06 PM Author: Coral property liquid oxygen i would personally execute this commenter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20084996) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:10 PM Author: at-the-ready scarlet stage roommate ....
Shitboomer fails to realize that person wasn't like "Oh I want to be a cop." Person got a degree in something, couldn't find a job in it/found out pay sucked, became cop.
Oh, and LOL starting a business in NY. I have 2. Neither have ever made a dime after taxes. |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 9:39 AM Author: Deep Bistre Meetinghouse Goal In Life describe your businesses bro.
chobani did just fine in ny. |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:11 PM Author: yellow cruise ship cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085024) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:37 PM Author: bronze alpha market I wouldn't Prosecute you at all, Bro.
I'd let you off w/ a Reckless Conduct. |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:28 PM Author: ebony concupiscible windowlicker what a fucking out of touch dick (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085099) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:37 PM Author: 180 lake lay Boomers are IRATE as fuckkkk cuz. I just read an article in Smart Money talking about how Boomers are having to help their kids get jobs. The "Never trust anyone over 30" generation is fucking annoying. The only thing they ever did was lose the fucking Vietnam war. Sorry breh, shit like this gets me irritated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085492) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:29 PM Author: rusted hateful rigpig actually, he's right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087415) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:35 AM Author: razzmatazz crystalline whorehouse headpube lol nice flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583713) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 7:52 AM Author: chocolate dopamine gunner med school is flame.
just COP DAT ortho surgery certification from the project management institute |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 10:38 AM Author: olive duck-like sanctuary lol ty
boomers: "just do 'get your foot in the door' lil breh" |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:01 PM Author: Dashing Yarmulke Marketing Idea He's an asshole for making him take loans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20084966) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:06 PM Author: cyan public bath roast beef I doubt he has very much cash. Career academic / public sector official
edit: net worth of 1 to 2 million |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:10 PM Author: at-the-ready scarlet stage roommate Bernanke has money. He's SES. Probably pulls @200k/yr. Sure as a professor he did OK too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085017) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:11 PM Author: cyan public bath roast beef He earns 180k a year. Not really enough to pay for son's medical school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085022) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:13 PM Author: at-the-ready scarlet stage roommate A lot of professors have tuition reciprocity deals.
No one I know who had a parent as a tenured college prof paid for college.
Jr probably went to a good UG free. |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:46 PM Author: Greedy well-lubricated sound barrier piazza he has a widely used econ textbook as well.
edit: several. |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:33 PM Author: chocolate dopamine gunner
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Date: February 29th, 2012 6:08 PM Author: at-the-ready scarlet stage roommate "Really, student loans are a shame."
Bernanke thumbs through "DIE BROKE!" for ideas on squandering his money before dying.
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:37 PM Author: massive arousing private investor theater I'm pretty sure both of his kids got swell lib arts degrees on the cheap. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085484) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:39 PM Author: Peach turdskin Yeah, most of the "elites" in high government positions that Alex Jones types go nuts over aren't actually that rich or privileged. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20085508) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:22 PM Author: Jade Outnumbered School lol @ the image of Bernanke walking up to a "mortgage specialist" at e.g., Citibank to discuss refinancing options (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087365) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:26 PM Author: Slippery pink love of her life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087395) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 11:22 PM Author: Coiffed kitty cat fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20088000) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:44 AM Author: razzmatazz crystalline whorehouse headpube that there is some pretty funny shit to think about... somehow i think dood got hooked up pretty good with his refinancing options. but then again even govt chiefs don't nec get special tx in all regards (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583733) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:25 PM Author: aquamarine library messiness i think most ppl here would give their left nut to graduate with the same reasonable level of debt and auspicious job opportunities as his son
JFC, so outta touch |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 10:28 PM Author: massive arousing private investor theater http://i.qkme.me/55dc.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087408) |
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Date: February 29th, 2012 11:22 PM Author: Coiffed kitty cat fanboi goddamn 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#20087992) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:40 AM Author: gold diverse idiot black woman holy fucking shit.
How does one get 400k in loans?
What, full price Dartmouth UG, and then full price medical school? 150k UG, 250k med?
what' the monthly payment? 4k? |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:47 AM Author: Appetizing People Who Are Hurt just do usc dental school bro
http://dentistry.usc.edu/programs/dds/cost-of-attendance/ |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 5:01 PM Author: Passionate fortuitous meteor hairy legs Yeah the COA of dental school has become absolutely fucking ludicrous.
And to make matters worse, most dentists have to buy into/start up their own practices as well. There goes another $100-150k down the drain. |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 2:41 AM Author: razzmatazz crystalline whorehouse headpube why the fuck should bernanke pay his son's medical school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21583726) |
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Date: September 15th, 2012 5:02 PM Author: Excitant giraffe he's paying for everyone's shit securities, why not some tuition too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21586506) |
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Date: September 16th, 2012 6:41 PM Author: Misunderstood Brethren Brunch CR. he's paying for bankers to continue what is a essentially a giant, hyper-leveraged gambling ring with taxpayer money. why not pay for his kid's med school costs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21594853) |
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Date: September 16th, 2012 10:07 PM Author: frozen amethyst cumskin He thinks he is buying time, but he's just digging a bigger hole. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886653&forum_id=2#21596411) |