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Payday Lending
March 13, 2023
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Timothy Noah
SVB Moral: Idiot Businesses Get a Bailout—and Indebted College Kids Get Lawsuits
Conservative legal activists and jurists hate it when the government throws a lifeline to poor people and students, but not when it does the same for banks.
March 1, 2021
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Kyle Paoletta
The FinTech Industry Wants to Give Desperate Workers an Advance on Their Next Paycheck. It’s a Trap.
Employers love so-called earned-wage access apps. Their employees, not so much.
July 23, 2020
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Ankush Khardori
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a White-Collar Criminal
Thanks to the Trump administration’s signature mix of incompetence and corruption, America is knee-deep in fraud and corporate malfeasance.
March 1, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
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Alex Shephard
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz joins the GOP in standing up for payday lenders.
February 11, 2015
Danny Vinik
Payday Loans Are Bleeding American Workers Dry. Finally, the Obama Administration Is Cracking Down.
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