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A comment on Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans. Parent comment

Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by mnx on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:54AM (#15798321)
This is true of many things, but seems to be politically unpopular to notice. The right will claim that prices are what prices are and cannot be changed, and the left will claim it's all in resource allocation.
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by dalbasal on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:29AM (#15798684)
Well... It's not that financing and cost are unrelated. Economics exists. I (I wrote the comment) do think that prices and costs rose in response to more available money.

Anyway, I think that these days the left and right may have changed seats in this regard. The left wants more price/cost control and the centre (centre-right and left, but more right) is talking about resource allocation, in practice defending the market driven system. The right hasn't resolved to a consistent position recently.

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