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Just when you thought college debt alone would ruin you....
Today's Wall Street Journal offered an interesting report on real estate broker A. J. Steigman who represents institutional investors...

Peter Lorenzi
May 18, 20224 min read
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Why conscientiousness is so important
If you follow and believe in the work of Jordan Peterson, you know that conscientiousness is the best predictor of many important...

Peter Lorenzi
May 2, 20222 min read
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The insane arrogance of college debt forgiveness
From the Wall Street Journal, 30 April 2022, "The taxpayer con of the century" (full editorial linked further below), some key excerpts:...

Peter Lorenzi
May 1, 20222 min read
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The wrong fix: Foolish college predatory loan reparations
Is the college loan debt problem primarily one of "ineffective" colleges? I think not. Only a small percentage of the schools that fail...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 30, 20223 min read
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Reflections on my research record
What do I have to show on the internet for forty years of university faculty appointments? From the University of Kansas to Loyola...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 29, 20221 min read
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The myth of affluenza
In 2010, with Bobby Friedmann and Jason Zhang, we published "Looking for Sin in All the Wrong Places: An Empirical Investigation of the...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 29, 20223 min read
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No tears for adjunct fears
The Washington Post ran one of those annual "buyer beware" or "income inequality" pieces on college campuses, just as families are...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 27, 20223 min read
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Calculating your ROM (Return on MBA)
"Nearly all graduates earn more money two years out of school than the amount they borrowed—and some saw their salaries double." How is...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 27, 20222 min read
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The empty nest mirage
According to the conventional narrative, we became empty nesters once we delivered Gaby to UCLA in late September 2017. The narrative is...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 26, 20222 min read
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Joy of life after...the pandemic
March 2022. These past two years have been something insane, all around the world. If there is a lesson to be learned here, it's that...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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The wealth creation versus leisure dilemma
In the first article (below), the good Walter Block points out that putting retirees back to work is not the solution to today's economic...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 22, 20223 min read
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Tony Blair gets it wrong on university enrollments
And I thought the problem was primarily an American one....but it is not just us. Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has done more harm...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 20, 20223 min read
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Posted lecture notes, Management 101
Posting the first half of my notes for my Loyola Management and Leadership courses, last updates when posted on Moodle in the fall 2018...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 7, 20223 min read
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The myth of critical thinking from liberal arts
Ten years ago I wrote the keynote address for the Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education conference in Milwaukee, written at the behest...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 6, 20223 min read
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College move in day: 1969 v 2017
I have a general memory of my move in day at Harper, with some specifics. It was late August or even early September, just before or --...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 3, 20222 min read
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Remembering the Sixties
The joke has long been that "if you can remember the Sixties you weren't really there." Well, maybe this will fill in some blanks for...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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College, college life, life, all that and all those memories
From SW: Florida Helps Families See Behind the College Curtain Tarren Bragdon Wall Street Journal March 18, 2022 2:22 pm ET Naples, Fla....

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 21, 20228 min read
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Life lessons from Richard Feynman
Five important life lessons from the late physicist...and humanitarian.

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 5, 20221 min read
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Is college worth it?
This is a critical question. Here is one presentation on this topical topic. I will offer my critique of this critique below. The problem...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 8, 20223 min read
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American mortality: Demographics, disorders and deaths
February 1, 2022. The ongoing effort to promote high numbers of Covid deaths has led to to the use of some bad math and to ignoring many...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 1, 20224 min read
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