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Thread of financial help books calling student loan debt “good debt.”
1. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook, 2006
1. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook, 2006
2. Alexa VanTobel’s Financially Fearless, 2013
3. Jon Hanson’s Good Debt, Bad Debt, 2006
4. Gwen Wilson’s 100% Financial Literacy Success, 2013
5. Margaret Feinberg’s How to Be a Grownup, 2005.
6. Elina Furman, Boomerang Nation: How to survive living with your parents the second time, 2005
7. Jeffrey Froshman, The Complete Financial Handbook for the Newly Divorced, 2009
8. A two for one, because this quotes another one!
Carolyn Castleberry, Women, Take Charge of Your Money, 2010
Carolyn Castleberry, Women, Take Charge of Your Money, 2010
9. DollarCamp Financial Survival Guide for Students.
10. Barry Leonard, Savings Fitness 2007
...and I got bored just doing those.
In any event, as someone who knew approximately jack shit about how to manage money when I was a teenager, I read a LOT of these books about how to manage money, because I wanted to be a responsible person!
In any event, as someone who knew approximately jack shit about how to manage money when I was a teenager, I read a LOT of these books about how to manage money, because I wanted to be a responsible person!
I cannot tell you how many times I saw “student loan debt is good debt.”
Like, twenty gazillion times.
Like, twenty gazillion times.
One of the reasons I completely support student loan forgiveness is simply because there was a period in time when about 95% of the people out there were just plain lying about student loans.
It’s wild to me to see people saying now that people were *irresponsible* for taking on debt that 90% of the self-help books preached was good debt.
How were they...supposed....to figure out?
How were they...supposed....to figure out?
