Loan Market

The student-loan market is not in a bubble and going into debt to pay for college is still worth it, according to a new report. But those are the rare bits of good news in the otherwise dispiriting report on students’ escalating college debt....

Jeremy Thomas is a freshman at Wichita State University.  But he's well aware of the 16-thousand-dollar debt waiting for him after graduation.  We asked him if his student debt scared him. "A little because I know I will have to start paying it back...

The stock market ping-pong ball bounced up as investors cheered new moves by debt-hobbled European nations to tackle their fiscal woes. The passage of an austerity budget in Italy and further steps toward a unity government in Greece comforted investors.....

I-iesha Leon of Bethlehem never expected her one-and-a-half year stint at Lehigh Valley College could cost her $92,910.47. That's what she's on track to pay -- seven student loans totaling $37,514, plus $55,396.47 in interest. In its quest for tuition...