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federal loans double. here with me now, stella adams, senior policy adviser for the national fair housing training academy. chris hicks, organizer of the student debt campaign. linnet ettnett etnett ettnette . and dan dicker, principal partner with a wealth management firm and senior contributor at thestreet.com. it s so nice to have all you hear. i want to start with you, lynnette. we ve always said that student loan debt is good debt. is it now bad debt? you know, historically, obviously, people have said that, for the reasons you cited. they say, it s going to help you to earn a bigger wage, you re going to make an investment in yourself. and i ve always told people that, just like any other form of debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt, et cetera, student loan debt can absolutely be bad debt if you put it into one of two categories. one, it s unaffordable for you to pay back.
that are informing much of cable news, but our boldest move yet may be this next conversation as we re bringing in our in-house therapist to tell you what to do when you are too in undaundated all this cable news. columnist for thestreet.com. there is a lot of places to talk about, but we have lost the ability to handle breaking news. everything is breaking news. i forgot what real news is. everything is breaking news highlighted. i suggest when something really big happens, we call it action breaking news. when president obama came on yesterday, that s actual breaking news. i kind of feel like the anchors made a point of saying, this is historical. you actually need to listen to this one. the other times we did
$1 billion a day on foreign oil. and when the price goes up as it is now, that goes up even higher. it s gone as high as $2 billion a day. well, think of it this way. that s money flowing out of our economy, creating jobs and wealth overseas. do we want to create jobs and wealth overseas or here in america? and if we do, that means we need to decrease our demand of foreign oil. that should be a core national mission, to end our dependence on foreign oil. oregon senator jeff merkley and dan dicker, contributor to thestreet.com, thanks both for joining us. you re welcome, chris. of course, conformity got us into the iraq war and other foreign policy disasters, can whistle-blowers save us from making that mistake again, there s an author on this topic i really want to talk to. he joins us next. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?
between this saturday and january 9th, there will be some 30-plus college matchups televised for millions of fans across our fine nation. and believe it or not, tuning in may not just be fun, it might be good for you. our resident therapist, noah kass, here to explain the power of sports in america. he s a columnist for thestreet.com. justifiable entertainment, therapy? what s your logic? first of all, it s ball night and i m psyched, man, just to start. my logic is first of all sorry. sports is like the ultimate break for me. it stops the day, i get 2 1/2 hours, 3 hours where i can concentrate on one thing, one struggle l, two teams against each other, i don t have to think about anything else. that in and of itself is unbelievably therapeutic. it s a healthy distraction. and i actually learn what teamwork actually looks like.