College Tuition Costs Will Likely Surge In Coming Years: Goldman Sachs

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Mark Melin
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College tuition, which has been rising at a breakneck pace since 1990, is starting to moderate to a pace in line with inflation. Causation behind the leveling of costs is due to several factors, a Goldman Sachs report notes, pointing to supply and demand factors as well as household income growth numbers. But don’t get accustomed to a normalization in prices because it won’t last long, analysts say. [timeless] College costs are finally dropping From 1990 to 2016, US advanced education costs have risen nearly double that of inflation. With US student debt now near $1.4 trillion, such price increases…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.