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mrfusion on Sept 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages

It didn’t go so well with college loans.

Any market government gets into gets distorted.

ceejayoz on Sept 9, 2020 | [–]

Most of the rest of the developed world doesn't really consider college a market in the American fashion, though.

Half-hearted government is a problem; education and healthcare both suffer in the US from trying to split the baby Solomon-style.

charlesu on Sept 9, 2020 | [–]

Maybe higher education shouldn't be a market.

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