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

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

Business Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine Cory Doctorow

subprime Detroit News documents the decimation of one city block Andrea James

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

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

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

crime Wells Fargo woulda gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that darn trade union Cory Doctorow

usausausa Multigenerational wealth makes white Americans richer than black Americans Cory Doctorow

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

class war The blacker a city is, the more it fines its residents (especially black ones) Cory Doctorow

finance Wells Fargo, who preyed on black borrowers, sponsors Black Lives Matter luncheon Cory Doctorow

President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin