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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
  • economics "Your debt is someone else's asset", a short film from The Intercept, Mollie Crabapple and co., and Astra Taylor Elías Villoro
  • loan sharks States crack down on predatory 200% pet store loans Mark Frauenfelder
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  • usps The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. Thom Dunn
  • trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
  • usausausa Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes 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
  • 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
  • transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
  • class war American towns survive by fining poor people, and use debtors' prisons to make them pay Cory Doctorow
  • law Kansas judge tells government debt collectors they can't hound a broke 58-year-old woman until her 84th birthday Cory Doctorow
  • videos 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
  • trumpism Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled Cory Doctorow
  • Business Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart Cory Doctorow
  • Business Senate Democrat is about to take the brakes off predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow
  • Business Australia's housing bubble is built on a deadly, about-to-burst credit bubble Cory Doctorow
  • finance Billions of dollars' worth of predatory student loans may… just… vanish Cory Doctorow

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