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If someone handed you an extra ten thousand dollars a month, no strings attached, would anything about your practice actually change? How many patients you’d see. How many clinic days you’d keep on the schedule. Whether you’d still be working where you are right now. Most physicians can’t answer that question with any confidence, and it’s not because the math is hard. It’s because almost none of us were ever taught to do the math in the first place. Ask any doctor where they learned to manage money, and the answer is usually the same: nowhere, really. Not in undergrad,…

High-yield savings account rates held steady and even increased going into August. With the Fed holding rates steady, banks are using this opportunity to capture savers.As of August 10, 2026, some online banks are still offering interest rates up to 4.15% APY. This is still much better than the average of 0.38% APY, according to the FDIC.Banks and credit unions are constantly adjusting their annual percentage yields (APYs) as markets react to Federal Reserve policy and inflation data, so staying up to date can make a real difference. Here’s where the best savings rates stand today — and what you…

Most American colleges run on semesters. But a meaningful set of schools (the University of California system, most of the University of Washington, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Stanford, the Cal State schools that haven’t converted, and a long list of others) run on quarters.If your student is at one, the sticker price and the loan limits are the same as anywhere else. What changes is the timing, and timing is where families get caught short. They also start later, so you get a little extra time to make the final decisions.In partnership with Ascent Student Loans, here’s how borrowing actually works on…

The Department of Education released a 24-question FAQ this week explaining how colleges must reduce annual federal student loan limits for students enrolled less than full-time. The document spells out the Schedule of Reductions (the math behind the cuts required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) and answers questions financial aid offices have been asking since ED published the final rule on May 1, 2026. The reductions apply to any loan period that begins on or after July 1, 2026. Would you like to save this?We’ll email this article to you, so you can come back to it later!…

The firm was Sony, the console was the PlayStation, and the thing that decided the decade was not the hardware. It was the disc — and the publisher terms that came with it. Sony pressed games onto CDs that cost cents to manufacture, let publishers reorder in days instead of committing cash to cartridge runs months ahead, and shipped more than 100 million consoles over the machine’s life. The Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million. The Sega Saturn sold roughly nine million. The two other entrants of that generation, the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, were off the market before the…

Graduate school is where student loan debt gets serious. According to the Education Data Initiative, the average borrower with graduate school debt owes $95,104 for their graduate loans alone. Add in undergraduate loans, and the average graduate borrower carries about $106,129 in total student loan debt.Professional degrees push the numbers even higher. The average law school graduate finishes with roughly $137,500 in total student debt, and the median medical school graduate in the Class of 2025 left with $215,000 in education debt, per the AAMC. If you borrowed for graduate school, you’re carrying some of the heaviest debt in the…

The answer is that the cable is barely doing the work. The glass inside it is. Every intercontinental fibre carries dozens of separate laser wavelengths at once, a technique called wavelength-division multiplexing, each wavelength encoded in both the brightness and the phase of the light and split across two polarisations, then re-brightened every 60 to 100 kilometres by erbium-doped amplifiers sealed inside torpedo-shaped repeaters. Stack those tricks and eight pairs of hair-thin fibres will move 160 terabits per second, which is what the trans-Atlantic MAREA cable was rated for when Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius finished laying it between Virginia Beach…

Key PointsThe Student Freedom Initiative offers HBCU and MSI students an income-contingent loan alternative with a 6.89% fixed rate, no co-signer, but only for STEM juniors and seniors at participating schools.Federal Direct Loans should remain the starting point for any HBCU or MSI student before considering Parent PLUS, SFI, or private loans.The July 2026 elimination of Grad PLUS loans is reshaping how HBCU graduate and professional students borrow, with new $50,000 annual and $200,000 lifetime caps on federal graduate Direct Loans. Families sending students to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) face a different…

Key PointsThe PSLF Buyback backlog stood at roughly 88,000 pending requests as of April 30, 2026, though the Department of Education estimates 18,000 to 19,000 of those are duplicate submissions.April 2026 was the first month decisions outpaced new requests since court-ordered reporting began: 6,870 requests were processed against 4,790 received, with a 96% approval rate.Based on reader reports to The College Investor, average processing time now runs 20 to 24 months — borrowers who submitted requests in December 2024 are still waiting as of August 2026. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Buyback program lets borrowers pay for past months…

The Heritage Foundation released model state legislation on August 6, 2026, giving state lawmakers ready-made bill text to codify the Trump Administration’s higher education compact at the public college level. The draft, titled “An Act to Refocus Colleges and Universities on Their Fundamental Academic Mission,” comes from the same think tank behind Project 2025’s education overhaul blueprint.The White House sent its Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education to nine universities in October 2025, and most declined, including MIT, which rejected it over free expression concerns. Heritage’s answer: states shouldn’t wait for schools to sign voluntarily. The model bill would…