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Ohio has effectively shut the door on payday lending. The state legislature — a bunch of nanny do-gooders — recognized the seen: the closing of 1600 payday stores and the loss of some 6000 jobs. But these same folks missed the unseen: …
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced today (Thursday) the results of its survey on credit card lending for the first quarter of 2008.
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David Stanton
Larry Yun of the NAR spin-machine is back at it today saying that recession “isn’t in the cards - no matter how you look at it” and calling for home prices to recover across the country in the second half of this year. …
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Microloans are my personal favorite way to make money online by lending to others. This is because you can help someone in a poverty stricken area of the world get the capital he or she needs to improve his or her situation. …
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Jeff
This evening, I trekked out to deepest darkest Richmond to see Momus’ performance at the Richmond Lending Library. (This was the second ever performance in a public library I had seen; the previous one was also by Momus, only somewhere …
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George Nassar
Front and center in the effort to ban payday lending were Tom Allio, Bill Faith and Susanne Gravette Acker. If you’ve got a moment, write or call them and let them know how the ban on payday lending will impact you. …
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A bill to limit payday lending in South Carolina is dead for this year, a powerful state legislator said Wednesday. State Rep. Harry Cato, R-Greenville, said he took umbrage at consumer advocates who criticized a House subcommittee that …
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The first real blow against predatory short-term lenders in the United States looks like it may be coming from Ohio.
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Ohio’s WNWO NBC 24: Payday Loan Companies May Close. Like thousands of Ohioans, Dale Griffin of Toledo lives paycheck to paycheck. And, when unexpected expenses crop up he relies on payday loans to get by. “When you got to borrow money, …
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MANILA, Philippines — Local banks are likely to increase lending this year by 10-15 percent to boost income as market turbulence continues to squeeze earnings from treasury operations, Bank of the Philippine Islands president Aurelio …
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