Do you think it might be possible that we’ve accidentally induced hyper-inflation in higher education?

July 15, 2015

Higher ed inflation

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

I mean maybe? Just a little bit? Massive direct and indirect subsidies and encouragement to take on debt creates Baumol’s cost disease on steroids. Oh and by the way, take a look at that mid-aughts increase in housing prices, and then compare that to the higher education bubble, and consider all the trouble the housing bubble caused.

HT Kingsland, Buchanan and Parlapiano, BLS