trumpism Predatory lender found to have swindled veterans' pensions for eight years, so Trump's CFPB fined him $1 Cory Doctorow
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
finance Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings 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
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
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 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
law Judge says Citibank's law-school loan isn't "student debt" and can be discharged in bankruptcy Cory Doctorow
class war Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers Cory Doctorow
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: This American Life's error-ridden disability report; Congressman claims he's helpless before predatory lenders; Wash-care label apologizes for Bush Cory Doctorow
