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