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UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business website homepage. UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business is cutting tuition on its Flex MBA program by $30,000 and its Executive MBA by $48,000 starting this fall — a reduction of up to 38%. The school is openly framing the move as a response to new federal graduate borrowing limits that take effect July 1, 2026. However, this move raises more questions than answers.Why it matters: At the new $99,000 price tag, Merage’s Flex MBA squeaks in just below the $100,000 lifetime aggregate cap on federal graduate borrowing established by the One Big…

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There’s a pattern I’ve noticed after years of conversations with physicians building lives beyond medicine. It usually comes up quietly. In a mastermind group. At a conference after the presentations end. Over dinner when the conversation finally gets honest. A physician who has, by every reasonable measure, done everything right. Good income. Stable career. Family. The house they worked toward. The title they chased. And somewhere underneath all of it, a feeling they can’t quite name and aren’t sure they’re allowed to have. They’re not miserable. They’re not failing. They just expected to feel something that never arrived. If you’ve…

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Key federal databases that tracked American schools since 1962 is now running on outdated numbers. After Education Department gutted their research arm last year, large portions of the Digest of Education Statistics (covering per-student spending, teacher pay, enrollment, and student safety) have not been refreshed in more than a year. The Department says new contracts are coming, but the public (and researchers) are operating without current school data in the meantime.Why it matters: Researchers, journalists, school boards, and parents rely on the Digest as the single reliable source for U.S. school statistics. When it stops updating, every downstream estimate (from college…

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The payment pause protecting borrowers in the SAVE plan is winding down, with loan servicers set to begin notifying borrowers starting July 1 to move into a new repayment plan.Once a borrower receives that notice, the clock starts: forbearance ends 90 days after the official notice is sent, which means most affected borrowers will be back in active repayment by the end of September 2026. This means either the borrower selects a new repayment plan, or will default back into the standard repayment plan.The bottom line – nearly all of these borrowers will have a payment due in October or…

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As I approach 50 in mid-2027, I’ve been thinking a lot more about responsibility, legacy, and mortality. What I’ve realized is that responsible adulting is hard. One misstep and you or your loved ones could be screwed for life. Ultimately, life is a series of financial quests for survival before we die. If we don’t successfully complete one quest, we end up compounding our failures with new ones. And the brutal truth is that the quests are not independent of each other, they are a chain. Fail to build a six-month emergency fund, and you raid your 401(k) during a…

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