Generation I.O.U.
70% of students graduate with $35,000+ in student loans. Is it really worth incurring so much debt only to struggle to repay it after college in a part time job? Yahoo put on a special titled...
View ArticleEpisode: Education System Chaos
Synopsis: Michael Covel goes straight for the jugular of organized education on today’s podcast. Organized education is broken and the typical university experience is a fraud. Tenured professors make...
View Article18 Years Old And Not A Care In The World
A word from James Altucher: Kids at 18 have no idea what they want to do in life. The world is a very big place. Its bigger than five classes a day on philosophy or chemical engineering. Most kids...
View ArticleWhy Do I Have to Go to School?
Feedback in: Michael, I have never contacted you before but have listened to all your podcasts. Great stuff! My wife forwarded this to me and I immediately thought of you, in addition to a number of...
View ArticleYou Have to Be Asleep to Believe It
Great video clip from George Carlin. He reiterates everything I talk about on my blog, in my books and on my podcast, “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”: My...
View ArticleKick Ass…Or Die
A top CEO recently spoke before a Harvard MBA class. A student asked, “What do I do?” The CEO replied, “Take the rest of the money you have not spent on tuition and do something else.” If you do...
View ArticleTrading Food For Thought
Interesting reads: Michael Mauboussin For Gender Equality, You Can’t Beat Capitalism Here’s What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official Death Is Optional Nobody...
View ArticleEp. 483: Paul Tough Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following
Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes “What is it about growing up in poverty that leads to so many troubling outcomes? Or to put the question another way, what is it that growing up in...
View ArticleRobots Are Taking Over the Bakeries and Laundry Mats; What Is Left For You?
From the Washington Post: At MIT, a management robot is learning to run a factory and give orders to artificial co-workers, and a BakeBot robot is reading recipes, whipping together butter, sugar and...
View ArticleThe System Is Broken: College is a Scam?
Great new blog post from James Altucher: Is College A Scam?. An excerpt: …The bottom line is: the system is broken, the middle class is disappearing, being carved through the middle by a trillion...
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