loansharks Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

pangea Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

academic malpractice How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow

1000% apr Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow

The Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017 Senate Democrat is about to take the brakes off predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow