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Mitchell D. Weiss

Bad Credit? A Boss' Advice for Getting the Job

It’s been a rough several years, and while the employment outlook is slowly turning hopeful, those who’ve been through hell …

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Searching for Solutions in a Sea of Confounding Student Loan Statistics

Lately there have been some powerful articles profiling college grads and others who are struggling to make their student loan …

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Don't Let Your Student Loan Debt Keep You From Buying a House

When I was about to graduate college, one of my dad’s friends put his arm around my shoulder to pass …

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Four Years of College for the Price of Three?

Suppose for a moment that the student loan crisis is painstakingly addressed the way it should, the ideological debate about …

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Student Loan Rate Deal: Spared, Then Stung

As it turns out, Congress was able to get enough of its act together to resolve the subsidized student loan …

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CFPB Report Needs a Brighter Light on Private Student Loans

This past Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its report on private student loans (PSLs).

It describes how PSL …

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Why Gov't Doesn't Need to Raise Student Loan Rates

I worked in Manhattan many years ago—at a time when 3-Card Monte was the hot ticket on the streets. As …

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Student Loans Need an Overhaul, Not Small Changes

Student loan debt is the elephant in America’s living room, and with good reason. According to the most recent data …

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Mitchell D. Weiss – Mitchell Weiss is an experienced financial services industry executive, entrepreneur and adjunct professor of finance at the University of Hartford. He is also the author of the recently published College Happens: A Practical Handbook for Parents and Students, Life Happens: A Practical Guide to Personal Finance from College to Career-2nd Edition, and Business Happens: A Practical Guide to Corporate Finance for Small Businesses and Professional Practices.

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