A cura di @NedCuttle21(Ulm).

Su The Atlantic, il reportage di Paul Campos, pubblicato nel settembre del 2014, sul business, negli States, delle scuole di legge private (for-profit law schools) e, in generale, sugli enormi debiti contratti dagli studenti universitari statunitensi. Il lungo articolo, come dice un pezzo pubblicato su Thriller Café lo scorso gennaio, ha perfino ispirato l’ultimo romanzo di John Grisham, The Rooster Bar, edito in Italia col titolo La grande truffa.

David Frakt isn’t easily intimidated by public-speaking assignments. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve and a defense attorney, Frakt is best known for securing the 2009 release of the teenage Guantánamo detainee Mohammad Jawad. He did so by helping to convince a military tribunal that the only evidence that Jawad had purportedly thrown a hand grenade at a passing American convoy in 2002 had been extracted by torture. By comparison, Frakt’s presentation in April to the Florida Coastal School of Law’s faculty and staff seemed to pose a far less daunting challenge. A law professor for several years, Frakt was a finalist for the school’s deanship, and the highlight of his two-day visit was this hour-long talk, in which he discussed his ideas for fixing what he saw as the major problems facing the school: sharply declining enrollment, drastically reduced admissions standards, and low morale among employees. But midway through Frakt’s statistics-filled PowerPoint presentation, he was interrupted when Dennis Stone, the school’s president, entered the room. (Stone had been alerted to Frakt’s comments by e-mails and texts from faculty members in the room.) Stone told Frakt to stop “insulting” the faculty, and asked him to leave.

Secondo un articolo pubblicato su Business Insider, quello dei prestiti concessi, negli Stati Uniti, per l’acquisto delle automobili e per frequentare corsi di laurea sarebbe un problema tutt’altro che trascurabile.

L’allarme è arrivato, non più tardi della scorsa settimana, direttamente dal Wall Street Journal, testata certamente non solita all’allarmismo gratuito: le vendite di automobili a livello globale stanno per subire il primo, serio rallentamento dalla recessione del 2008 a causa del combinato di già precarie condizioni del settore cui vanno a unirsi le contingenze di dispute tariffarie e dazi, aumento del prezzo delle materie prime e calo della domanda.

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