https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuban-warns-housing-bubble-160500202.html I agree with Mark Cuban on something, will wonders never cease.
Massive student loan debt, via the federally guaranteed student-loan industry ($1.5 trillion dollar student loan government guarantee program), is yet another pattern of overleveraging and mortgaged futures … further bolstered by a prolonged and slow economic recovery, iffy job market (sluggish entry-level wages in labor markets /stagnant wages)—a liquidity crunch and wealth loss—e.g., systematically causing consumers to defer larger purchases such as vehicles, homes, business ownership, along with an overall regression in private enterprise (e.g., all forced postponements). “…student loan guarantees undermined market discipline, encouraging risky borrowers to load up on artificially low-rate debt” (Weiser, Jul. 8, 2014). Sharing the Leverage | National Review Online
Ok, so how long before the bubble pops? And what happens to the U.S. economy if it pops? I give it eight more years before a crescendo arrives.
If and when there's less distortion in the market for student loans, ultimately it will be good for the economy as a whole. It will be bad for non-profit and public institutions that rely on high tuition rates, and as some of them fail to adapt and die off it will mean more business for public institutions with state subsidies, and whatever other institutions are profitable at whatever tuition rates the hypothetical new caps would support.
Now here's a fun link that can eat your afternoon. Wow. https://studentaid.ed.gov/about/data-center/student/default