predatory lending Square gets into the loan sharking business with 65% APR short-term loans Mark Frauenfelder
predatory lending How New York taxi drivers were conned and bankrupted by medallion loan sharks Mark Frauenfelder
finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
youtube Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds Cory Doctorow
public health Homeopathic Berlin Wall Pills made from its pulverized concrete "treat" loneliness, isolation, and oppression Jennifer Sandlin
economics "Your debt is someone else's asset", a short film from The Intercept, Mollie Crabapple and co., and Astra Taylor Elías Villoro
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict 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
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
youtube A public bank for LA: instead of sending hundreds of millions to predatory finance, Angelenos' taxes can fund community development Cory Doctorow
science fiction Ted Chiang: Elon Musk's fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations Cory Doctorow
crime Wells Fargo woulda gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that darn trade union Cory Doctorow
