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Mitchell D. Weiss is an experienced financial services industry executive and entrepreneur. He is an Executive in Residence at the University of Hartford and co-founder of the university’s Center for Personal Financial Responsibility. His books include Life Happens: A Practical Course on Personal Finance from College to Career and Business Happens: A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurial Finance for Small Businesses and Professional Practices—both of which are now undergraduate courses that Mitch teaches at the university and elsewhere.

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The Little-Known Student Loan Bait-and-Switch
The Little-Known Student Loan Bait & Switch
Ever been promised something with a couple of strings attached, o... read more

May 6, 2014

Student Loans
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Should a 300% Interest Rate Be Legal?
Is there anyone out there who still believes that payday lending ... read more

April 29, 2014

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The One Word Banks Use to Manipulate You
How Banks Use Fear to Make You Pay More for a Loan
In this era of attention-getting sound bites, the financial servi... read more

April 22, 2014

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The Middlemen That Can Drive Up the Cost of Your Loan
The Middlemen That Can Drive Up the Cost of Your Loan
As if alternative financing isn’t expensive enough, an illumina... read more

April 15, 2014

Personal Loans
Combustible Adjustables: The Troubling Return of the ARM
Combustible Adjustables: The Troubling Return of the ARM
It was only a matter of time. Adjustable rate mortgages—the apo... read more

April 8, 2014

Mortgages
An Indefensible Defense of Student Loans
An Indefensible Defense of Student Loans
James Runcie, the Federal Student Aid office’s chief operating ... read more

April 7, 2014

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