THE VIDEO SHELF · college tuition costs
How government programs drive up college tuitions
Peter Schiff, during his 2010 Senate campaign, argues that government loan programs and subsidies push college tuition up.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in tuition-cost threads for the argument that easy government-backed loans enable high prices.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Peter Schiff
- Topic
- college tuition costs
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2018
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From the original HN conversations
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Agreed. Here's a solid video on the topic where Peter Schiff explains why college tuition is so high: [VIDEO]
josh33 on Hacker News · 2010-11
In 'Malemployment' on the RiseI suspect that Peter Schiff is closer to the mark. [VIDEO] His hypothesis is that increasing the capacity of students to pay (to almost arbitrarily high levels) by providing government guarantees of student loans allows allows schools to charge ridiculously high tuition. To some extent, …
anonymoushn on Hacker News · 2011-02
In Why Does College Cost So Much?When you subsidize industries they no longer attempt to contain costs. Unintuitively, instead of getting cheaper they get more expensive. There's an interesting video by Peter Schiff on the subject: [VIDEO]
mixmastamyk on Hacker News · 2018-09
In Why Is College in America So Expensive?
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