
Everyone knows that student loan debt has become a massive problem here in Germany. Even though I'm not a student yet, I'm amazed at the enormous debt some people have after graduation. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reports, "Our initial findings on the size of the private student loan market are sobering. When we add in the outstanding debt in the federal student loan program, it appears that outstanding student loan debt reached the trillion dollar mark a few months ago – much larger than estimates in other recent reports."