“Usury Law & The Christian Right” | Meyers’ Critique
A few months ago, I posted my brief review of the academic paper “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation.” I did this because authors Stephen Graves and Christopher Peterson [...]
20/20 subprime-sight
Martin Eakes of the Center For Responsible Lending recently distributed a press release in which he reacts to President Obama’s plan to fix the housing crisis that plagues America. Nothing like damage control for the image after your business was directly involved in causing the subprime mortgage crisis to [...]
Payday loans consistently draw the ire of activist groups like the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). They tout themselves as champions on the side of the common consumer, but might the reality be very different?
Ericka Andersen of “The Confabulum” blog draws our attention to the potentially seamy underbelly of the [...]
Many people are loosing money
In an interesting column by Anna Ozar of The Moscow News Weekly, the concept of “credibility” as it relates to the world economic crisis presents a platform that payday loans and other lenders . For the non-economist, the numbers, buyouts and falling scores can make [...]