by PawnMaster | Oct 10, 2016 | Payday Loans
Just months after Google banned payday loan advertisements, regulators have cracked down on a similar type of company backed by the venture capital arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The company, California-based LendUp, bills itself as an alternative to...
by PawnMaster | Aug 1, 2016 | Payday Loans
Google has taken steps recently to control who can, and can’t advertise. But after banning payday lenders, Google bought one of their own. Google’s “do no evil” mantra and the company’s sometimes arbitrary actions have been called into question time and again....
by PawnMaster | Jun 30, 2016 | Payday Loans
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about payday lending. Need a primer? Catch up here. Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of...
by PawnMaster | Jun 29, 2016 | Payday Loans
There are more payday lending storefronts in the United States than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Lenders loan to about 10 million people every year — an $89 billion industry. The “free cash now!” ads on talk radio and daytime television are incessant. Earlier...
by PawnMaster | Jun 24, 2016 | Payday Loans
A new staff report by the House Financial Services Committee concluded that stronger federal consumer protections are needed for Americans who’d consider payday lenders. Titled “Skirting the Law: Five Tactics Payday Lenders Use to Evade State Consumer Protection...
by PawnMaster | Jun 20, 2016 | Payday Loans
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s restrictive short-term lending proposals [Editorial: Obama delivers wake-up call to payday lenders, June 8] are a direct threat to millions of Americans’ access to affordable credit and fail to consider the perspective of...
