class war California's lax usury laws means out-of-state loan sharks are charging desperate Californians 183% APRs Cory Doctorow

cryptocurrency The Hollywoodization of crypto is a moral disaster Jennifer Sandlin

usps The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. Thom Dunn

health How Memphis's Methodist University Hospital, a "nonprofit," sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each Cory Doctorow

corruption 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

finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow

Business China's "pawn shops" have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate Cory Doctorow

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

late stage capitalism How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot Cory Doctorow

corruption New York City's municipal debt collectors have forged an unholy alliance with sleazy subprime lenders Cory Doctorow

finance American banks' secret subprime exposure stretches into the billions Cory Doctorow

Business Senate Democrat is about to take the brakes off predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow

class war Support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's action against predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow

Business Wells Fargo won't claw back $125m retirement bonus from exec who oversaw 2m frauds Cory Doctorow

class war Cash grants to people with unexpected bills successfully prevents homelessness Cory Doctorow

law Forced arbitration clauses are a form of wealth transfer to the rich Cory Doctorow

politics The Democratic Party's SOPA-loving, Snowden-hating, Hillary-partisan power-broker has her first-ever primary challenger Cory Doctorow

picks Fox News advice on how to win the lottery Mark Frauenfelder

corruption US credit union regulator crushed Internet Archive's non-predatory, game-changing bank Cory Doctorow

class war Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers Cory Doctorow