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- Reforming the Credit Card Industry
- Consumers should be able to use plastic without getting skewered by unfair bank practices. Although the Federal Reserve passed new regulations to reform the industry, many consumer groups argue the Fed failed to complete the job. Here's a list of additional reforms needed to make credit cards fairer for consumers....
- Articles 2009-04-15
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- Fed rate change puts usury limit in legal Limbo
- IF ARKANSAS' CONSTITUTIONAL restriction on usury wasn't problematic enough, a change last week in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy has left the state without a clear definition of the allowable interest rate that can be charged by non-bank lenders. On Thursday, the Fed followed through with an announced plan...
- Research articles 2003-01-13
- Feds put usury limit in legal limbo
- If Arkansas' constitutional restriction on usury wasn't problematic enough, a recent change in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy has left the state without a clear definition of the allowable interest rate that can be charged by non-bank lenders. On Jan. 9, the Fed followed through with an announced plan to...
- Research articles 2003-01-20
- More lenders look to Congress for relief from usury limit
- AMENDMENT 60 TO THE Arkansas Constitution was adopted by voters in November 1982, a matter of days after the Federal Reserve's discount rate dropped below 10 percent for the first time in three years. In the 20 intervening years, the interest rate pendulum has swung from historic highs...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Usury update: where the line is drawn between legal and illegal interest in Arkansas
- The Arkansas Constitution has long baffled both pundits and laypersons alike trying to dispel what amount of interest is legal and what is not. Amendment 60 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in 1982, states that the maximum amount of interest allowed in this State is five percent per year over...
- Research articles 2006-11-13
- Why Credit Card Regulation Is Broken
- Until recently, regulators routinely looked the other way as credit card issuers ensnared unwitting consumers with huge finance charges and penalties. So how did credit card regulation become so broken? Here's a brief history of the slippery practices of the industry. How...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- The Lowdown on Business Loans
- The article states that a loan is based on a simple idea. Someone gives money, and the other person promise to pay it back, usually with interest. Since one must pay back the lender whether the business is a fabulous success or a miserable failure, the entire risk of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- EZCORP: An Easy Investment in Economic Crisis
- EZCORP EZPW is in the business of pawn shops and payday loans, or quote their own press release, “EZCORP is primarily a lender or provider of credit services to individuals who do not have cash resources or access to credit to meet their short-term cash needs”. Even when the...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Mexican Billionaire Puts the Squeeze on The NY Times
- Remember the news back in January about the sudden arrival of Carlos Slim Helu and his extended clan from South of the Border as the purported saviors of The New York Times, then staggering under a debt load that was threatening to break the back of the old gray lady?...
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
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