When you send your son or daughter off to college this year, the person sitting next to them in that lecture hall is more likely now than ever before to be your age, or close to it. If the rates of college borrowing are any indication, forty year olds and older are finding themselves back in school. While attending college has been touted most recently as a way to add ten-years to your life, or at least your mental health, these students are more interested on improving their chances at getting a job. Not a better one; any job.
On the Radio with Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Today on the Financial Impact Factor with Paul Petillo, Dave Kittredge and Dave Ng we have as our special guest Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., a company specializing in financial planning software. He is also the author of six books, the most recent “Jimmy Stewart is Dead – Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking.
Professor Kotlikoff is running for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He is seeking the nomination of the advocacy group Americans Elect.See more ›
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