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- <text id=90TT2065>
- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: Business Notes:Loans
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- LOANS
- Getting an F In Finance
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Any business student knows that bad loans come in waves. The
- largest U.S. guarantor of student loans is learning that lesson
- the hard way. The Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a
- nonprofit group that has guaranteed $9.6 billion in student
- debt, acknowledged last week that a rising tide of defaults is
- threatening to push the agency into insolvency. HEAF's trouble
- was caused primarily by its heavy commitment to trade-school
- students, the group with the highest default rate. More than
- one-third of HEAF's loans were made to students attending
- for-profit institutions that promised careers in fields from
- hairdressing to truck driving.
- </p>
- <p> The Education Department reimburses guarantors for most of
- their losses. Ted Sanders, Under Secretary of Education, said
- the government hopes to bail out HEAF without using any
- taxpayer money, but in any case the rescue will cost no more
- than $100 million.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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