The CFPB highlighted Sallie Mae in its report, noting the company's "extraordinary gains" on a federal program designed to aid student borrowers and its apparent reliance on cheap government financing.
But perhaps the most worrying aspect of the new energy policy is its apparent abandonment of the cheapest energy measure of all - efficiency.
That's not immediately apparent — austerity-strangled Greece, cheap-money America and military-ruled Egypt are all exhibiting quite different symptoms.
By comparison, cheating on a word problem, with no apparent victim, produces a relatively cheap thrill.
Apparent changes in access to cheap, energy-dense food, urbanization, and adoption of sedentary lifestyles in the countries of Central America have raised concerns about the rapid emergence of obesity and diabetes in the region.
And nowhere is this more apparent that in Studentski Grad, where cheap rents, lax zoning rules and young residents mean that clubs and bars are opening everywhere, from vacant lots to active dormitories.
On August 1st the finance ministry increased export-tax rebates on a range of clothing products from 11% to 13%, and on bamboo products from 5% to 11%, in an apparent effort to help exporters of cheap goods.
Start with the apparent end of the era of cheap oil, add the laundry list of problems you can recite in your sleep, and you can feel tectonic plates moving.
Although this trend has already harmed the profitablility of some oil firms, nowhere has the impact of cheaper oil been more apparent than in the American car market.
Now it is apparent that credit will be even cheaper than planned: initially it was expected to cost the Treasury $2 billion in 2010; instead it cost the government only a quarter of that.
