Education

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

A system that piles debt on students in exchange for a marginal or even zero-return on their investment is morally and financially bankrupt.

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.  In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in. 

Bonita Tindle, a black Social Justice Warrior, fighting the power:

Call me a Marxist if you will, but it is perfectly clear that the Social Justice Warrior movement for “safe spaces” and suchlike is a naked grab for power and domination, using modes of discourse that work within those communities, and to which wibbly-wobbly campus administrators, teachers, and diversocrats are especially susceptible. Liberalism in this case is nothing but a pseudo-benign mask over will to power.

Rachel Huebner, a Harvard undergraduate, writes about the situation on her campus:

One week ago, we observed an unexpected spike in the yield spread of Connecticut bonds over AAA-rate munis:

There were two specific catalysts for the spike in yield: