Steve Eisman

Iowa Senator Questions Education Department's Ties To Hedge Funds

The New York Times | BEN PROTESS | Posted 09.28.2011

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Senator Charles E. Grassley is examining whether Education Department officials disclosed confidential government information to hedge fund managers, ...

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Steve Eisman, For-Profit College Skeptic, Will Pay Indebted Student's Bill

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Karin Fischer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven Eisman, a hedge-fund manager who delivered a scathing assessment of for-profit education at the same Senate hearing, announced on Monday that h...

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For-Profit Education: Will We Ever Learn?

Melanie Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melanie Sloan

People looking to increase their marketability in a tough economic climate are being deceived about what an education at these schools will cost, what doors these degrees might open, and the salaries students can expect upon graduation.

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Investor Steve Eisman RAILS On For-Profit Colleges

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Eisman, the outspoken investor whose huge wager against the subprime mortgage market was chronicled by author Michael Lewis in his bestselling b...

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Transparency by 'Shorts' on 'For-Profit' Schools Needed, Too

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lanny Davis

Wall Street short-seller Steve Eisman gave a speech criticizing for-profit colleges and universities. Stories appeared after the speech that the share values of the companies had dropped -- and that Eisman had "shorted" these stocks.

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Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Betting (Right) on Armageddon

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathryn Schulz

You could argue that The Big Short is about a lot of different things. But I read it as a story about the social, personal, and intellectual conditions that can produce dazzling rightness or staggering wrongness.

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