You can switch plans but each time you do, the interest capitalizes. If you are getting forgiveness it will be discharged regardless at 120 payments but it's worth knowing. You can compare and estimate payments for plans here https://studentloanhero.com/ which should give you ballpark figures. Source: almost 2 years ago

When do you finish school? If you have loans with multiple levels of forgiveness, consolidating will bring them all to the highest count. At this point it needs to be done before October. I wouldn't consolidate the Perkins loans because qualify employers can allow you to defer and forgive a percentage annually until they're forgiven over 4 years. I think the only disadvantage is that if you were to pursue an... Source: about 2 years ago

Https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ focuses in the information without using indecipherable visualizations or adding a bunch of chart junk. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

For economic (as opposed to business) data you're usually better off with FRED https://fred.stlouisfed.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Https://fred.stlouisfed.org It seems like it's down every night nowadays... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Yeah they ripped a random inflation series from https://fred.stlouisfed.org and just called it “inflation”. Source: 12 months ago

You can compare the different series on https://fred.stlouisfed.org. Source: 12 months ago