Student debt levels portend rising loan default rates (The Indianapolis Star)
Not long ago, Dan Brown and his roommate headed from San Francisco to Las Vegas. They were aiming to win big so they could pay off their student loans.

Student-loan consolidation choices shrink (Centre Daily Times)
Kari Schoeneweis will face more than $60,000 in student loan debt when she graduates from Carlow University in spring.

eLearners.com Offers Comprehensive List of Loan Forgiveness Programs (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
As the recession causes cutbacks across the nation, many working adults are now ducking corporate downsizing by returning to school. A recent survey of visitors to eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, found that 42 percent of online education-seekers plan to take out a loan to pay for this return to student status. Amid economic uncertainty, many of these new learners may wonder ...

Student Lender Rally May Be Brief (TheStreet.com)
Student lenders will benefit from a government program, but legislators and schools want to see the government take more of a role in financing education.

Nissan Motor to Sell $500 Million in Auto Loan Bonds (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. ’s finance unit plans to raise $500 million in the first sale of U.S. auto-loan bonds since U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the government would shift the focus of his financial-industry rescue package toward bolstering investment in consumer debt.