David Ray Papke of Marquette has written Perpetuating Poverty: Exploitative Businesses, the Urban Poor, and the Failure of Liberal Reform. Here's the abstract: This article scrutinizes the rent-to-own, payday lending, and title pawn businesses – all of which target and exploit the urban poor. Each type of business has developed a sophisticated business model that […]
Category Archives: Predatory Lending
by Jeff Sovern Deposit advance loans are banks' answer to payday loans. Just like payday loans, they tend to be for short periods and high interest rates. And just as with payday loans, consumer advocates fear that consumers get trapped in them, in the sense that many borrowers can't come up with the money to […]
Here. The report is by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. It estimates the loans cost more than 14,000 jobs.
Brian posted in April on the CFPB's White Paper on payday lending. Payday lenders have fired back, as the American Banker reports here.
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday, I was on a panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on Consumer Interests, along with Dr. Yilan Xu, a professor at the University of Illinois in agricultural and consumer economics. Dr. Xu's talk concerned a natural experiment in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland had enacted an anti-predatory lending ordinance which was […]
by Jeff Sovern Earlier in the week I linked to a Times editorial, Bleeding the Borrowers Dry, about the practice of online payday lenders of lending to consumers in states that bar the kinds of high-interest rate loans payday lenders provide. Here is a link to my letter in the Times about the prospects of […]
Today's Times has an editorial, Bleeding the Borrowers Dry. Here is the final paragraph: A bill pending in the Senate, known as the Safe Lending Act, would require all online lenders to comply with state laws that provide stronger consumer protections than the federal statutes. It would establish once and for all that payday loan […]
On Sunday, Brian posted a link to the Times story, Major Banks Play Key Role in Payday Loans Banned by States. Yesterday, the Times followed up with a report, Dimon Pledges to Change JPMorgan’s Practices on Payday Loans. The specific practice that has drawn Dimon's ire is of withdrawing money from depositors' accounts to repay payday loans […]
Vanderbilt Ph.D. student Kathryn Fritzdixon, Jim Hawkins of Houston, & Paige Marta Skiba of Vanderbilt have writtetn Dude, Where's My Car Title?: The Law, Behavior, and Economics of Title Lending Markets. Here's the abstract: Millions of credit-constrained borrowers turn to title loans to meet their liquidity needs. Legislatures and regulators have debated how to best […]