EPISODE · Oct 21, 2025 · 3 MIN
The $50,000 Lesson: How Cutting Student Loan Subsidies Finally Lowered Tuition
from Watchdog on Wall Street with Chris Markowski · host Finance, Investing, & Markets
LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured When government stops fueling the college loan machine, prices fall — fast. Santa Clara Law just “slashed” tuition from $63,000 to $50,000 after new federal caps limited grad school borrowing. But instead of calling it a price cut, they’re spinning it as a “pledge scholarship.” In this episode of Watchdog on Wall Street, Chris Markowski exposes how decades of unlimited student loans inflated higher education costs — and how a simple change in policy proves the market still works when subsidies disappear.
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LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured When government stops fueling the college loan machine, prices fall — fast. Santa Clara Law just “slashed” tuition from $63,000 to $50,000 after new federal caps limited grad school borrowing. But instead of calling it a price cut, they’re spinning it as a “pledge scholarship.” In this episode of Watchdog on Wall Street, Chris Markowski exposes how decades of unlimited student loans inflated higher education costs — and how a simple change in policy proves the market still works when subsidies disappear.
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