Sunday, October 28, 2012

Highly Educated Have Biggest Debt Problems

Time reports on the so called "smart" people taking on debt:
it turns out the “victoms” were not, by and large, unsophisticated rubes. A new study finds that highly educated Americans were most likely to take on unmanageable debt in the pre-crisis years. What’s more, gross personal financial mismanagement occurred across the population and not just in the mortgage market and not just among the unsophisticated.