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

Business 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

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

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

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

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

a fox for every henhouse Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook Cory Doctorow

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

corruption The American Conservative: "The Dickensian Return of Debtors’ Prisons" Cory Doctorow

Business Google announces ad-ban for sleazy bail-bonds companies Cory Doctorow

Business Wells Fargo fined $1B for stealing cars and jacking houses Cory Doctorow

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

trumpism Trump's Consumer Finance Protection Board chief gives up on punishing Equifax for doxing the entire United States of America Cory Doctorow

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

videos Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds Cory Doctorow

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

politics Sanders donors flock to Tim Canova's campaign against DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Cory Doctorow

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