Quotes for All
There’s more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can’t imagine they’ll get it from these folks. Gail Collins
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with politicians who’ve done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn’t a right. It’s a kind of loan. Gail Collins
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn’t possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn’t have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities. Gail Collins
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That’s when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it. Gabrielle Union
American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: They owned or had major shareholdings in … Read more
When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else’s loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It … Read more
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn’t. Evgeny Morozov
As befits Silicon Valley, ‘big data’ is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans – and credit histories – to millions of people who currently lack access to them. Evgeny Morozov
You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don’t need it. Evan Esar
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. Eugene Delacroix