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Topic: student debts bought and written off. (Read 1272 times)

legendary
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November 01, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
#12
The group is basically saying that I am an idiot for paying off my student loans.

Boy is my face red.

Not to worry...credit card debt here I come. Maybe they will buy that some day.
I think they are actually only buying up debt of people who are behind on their payments. This allows them to buy the debt "cheaply" for only pennies on the dollar. The thing is that the chances of further recovery on such debt is actually very small, so the net effect on the borrower of the debt being forgiven is actually nothing most of the time.
It removes the debt from their credit score, that is major for a lot of people especially if it was a 40,000$ debt and they were making 25k / year or less, like so many 18-25s these days. Credit score is just another form of indentured servitude, as close to slavery as the banksters can comfortably get us these days.


The credit report will still show the previously missed payments for the same amount of time as it would otherwise be there, the only difference is that the balance would no longer show up as an amount owed. IMO this would probably not allow a deadbeat to go from not qualifying for a loan to qualifying for a loan as the creditor would need to accurately need to reflect that the debt was "settled" or "forgiven" not "paid as agreed"
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November 01, 2014, 06:21:07 PM
#11
Aren't they rewarding people with low financial intelligence though? Some might have chosen a different path other than getting a huge student loan for a worthless degree and repaying it their whole life
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November 01, 2014, 06:14:13 PM
#10
Why would they do this? does the group get anything in return besides publicity or is the publicity they get worth it to them?
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
November 01, 2014, 05:00:07 PM
#9
The group is basically saying that I am an idiot for paying off my student loans.

Boy is my face red.

Not to worry...credit card debt here I come. Maybe they will buy that some day.
I think they are actually only buying up debt of people who are behind on their payments. This allows them to buy the debt "cheaply" for only pennies on the dollar. The thing is that the chances of further recovery on such debt is actually very small, so the net effect on the borrower of the debt being forgiven is actually nothing most of the time.
It removes the debt from their credit score, that is major for a lot of people especially if it was a 40,000$ debt and they were making 25k / year or less, like so many 18-25s these days. Credit score is just another form of indentured servitude, as close to slavery as the banksters can comfortably get us these days.

legendary
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November 01, 2014, 04:50:39 PM
#8
The group is basically saying that I am an idiot for paying off my student loans.

Boy is my face red.

Not to worry...credit card debt here I come. Maybe they will buy that some day.
I think they are actually only buying up debt of people who are behind on their payments. This allows them to buy the debt "cheaply" for only pennies on the dollar. The thing is that the chances of further recovery on such debt is actually very small, so the net effect on the borrower of the debt being forgiven is actually nothing most of the time.

Of course the high cost of education does not let the Universities off the hook either, they are also responsible for this also.

I really hope these guys can succeed in what they are doing!

The high cost of education is directly related to the government subsidies the students receive. This buying of debt contributes to that high cost.
This is true. However the high cost of secondary education is not limited to the easy access to student loans, things like pell grants, huge tax breaks and the like also add to the increasing cost of education
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November 01, 2014, 10:51:56 AM
#7
That is very interesting, I do not have any debt. But this is a very interesting concept.

It really pisses me off that in 2008 and 2009 American Tax payers, paid several billion dollars to bail out the banks "too big to fail" blah blah blah and yet loose their homes to banking shenanigans and the next generation are starting off indebted to the same banks the tax payers already bailed out and they use this to enslave the next generation.

Of course the high cost of education does not let the Universities off the hook either, they are also responsible for much of the cost inflation applied to these debts.

I really hope these guys can succeed in what they are doing!

The Uk arguably had it right in the 1960's

1960s

Just over one in 10 (12%) went to university. Sixties students included Charles Clarke, now education secretary but then a maths student at King's College, Cambridge. There were no student loans, fees were paid in full by local education authorities and there was a means-tested annual grant up of to £340 to cover living costs.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/23/uk.education

I know even though I am an American, my son is in London School of Economics working on his Masters in Economics... trust me I know about those expenses  Cry  My back pocket is the bank and owner of his debt  Roll Eyes
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November 01, 2014, 10:43:27 AM
#6
That is very interesting, I do not have any debt. But this is a very interesting concept.

It really pisses me off that in 2008 and 2009 American Tax payers, paid several billion dollars to bail out the banks "too big to fail" blah blah blah and yet loose their homes to banking shenanigans and the next generation are starting off indebted to the same banks the tax payers already bailed out and they use this to enslave the next generation.

Of course the high cost of education does not let the Universities off the hook either, they are also responsible for much of the cost inflation applied to these debts.

I really hope these guys can succeed in what they are doing!

The Uk arguably had it right in the 1960's

1960s

Just over one in 10 (12%) went to university. Sixties students included Charles Clarke, now education secretary but then a maths student at King's College, Cambridge. There were no student loans, fees were paid in full by local education authorities and there was a means-tested annual grant up of to £340 to cover living costs.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/23/uk.education
legendary
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November 01, 2014, 10:36:26 AM
#5
Of course the high cost of education does not let the Universities off the hook either, they are also responsible for this also.

I really hope these guys can succeed in what they are doing!

The high cost of education is directly related to the government subsidies the students receive. This buying of debt contributes to that high cost.
sr. member
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AS8UDRR8Dc4wTyZkMT7Z5vaXtiWK9zh5Hb
November 01, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
#4
That is very interesting, I do not have any debt. But this is a very interesting concept.

It really pisses me off that in 2008 and 2009 American Tax payers, paid several billion dollars to bail out the banks "too big to fail" blah blah blah and yet loose their homes to banking shenanigans and the next generation are starting off indebted to the same banks the tax payers already bailed out and they use this to enslave the next generation.

Of course the high cost of education does not let the Universities off the hook either, they are also responsible for much of the cost inflation applied to these debts.

I really hope these guys can succeed in what they are doing!
legendary
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November 01, 2014, 10:32:01 AM
#3
The group is basically saying that I am an idiot for paying off my student loans.

Boy is my face red.

Not to worry...credit card debt here I come. Maybe they will buy that some day.
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November 01, 2014, 10:27:51 AM
#2
Absolutely brilliant and awesome.  Grin
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November 01, 2014, 10:17:34 AM
#1
For Libertarian leaning members Smiley

Where can bitcoin help here?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-31/meet-rolling-jubilee-group-buying-tearing-student-loans


An offshoot of 'Occupy Wall Street' is taking the $1.2 trillion student loan bubble, debt servitude dilemma of America's youth into its own hands... bit by tiny bit. As The BBC reports, activist group 'Rolling Jubilee' wants to "liberate debtors" by buying student-debt-bundled ABS on the secondary market (where they trade at significant discounts) and writing off the underlying loans. As Rolling Jubilee notes,

An activist group in the United States has been carrying out deeds that some might think the stuff of dreams - buying and cancelling other people's student debts.

Rolling Jubilee has purchased and abolished $3.8m (£2.35m) of debt owed by 2,700 students, paying just over $100,000 (£62,000), or as it says, "pennies on the dollar".

 

http://rollingjubilee.org/

http://strikedebt.org/

http://strikedebt.org/caq-buy-my-debt/

http://strikedebt.org/act/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strike-Debt/244850825627699

https://rally.org/strikedebt
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