When Payday Loans Go Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Payday Loans Go Wrong write by Steve Perry. This book was released on 2011-09-01. When Payday Loans Go Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn how a catastophic spiral of payday loan debt was conceived, endured and defeated. This is the story of Steve Perry's battle against the industry, a fight which has left its scars on both sides, it's a story to give strength to all of those who are in payday hell.
The Unbanking of America
The Unbanking of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unbanking of America write by Lisa Servon. This book was released on 2017-01-10. The Unbanking of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system: “Startling and absorbing…Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have in common? All three are victims of our dysfunctional mainstream bank and credit system. Nearly half of all Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, and income volatility has doubled over the past thirty years. Banks, with their high monthly fees and overdraft charges, are gouging their lower- and middle-income customers while serving only the wealthiest Americans. Lisa Servon delivers a stunning indictment of America’s banks, together with eye-opening dispatches from inside a range of banking alternatives that have sprung up to fill the void. She works as a teller at RiteCheck, a check-cashing business in the South Bronx, and as a payday lender in Oakland. She looks closely at the workings of a tanda, an informal lending club. And she delivers engaging, hopeful portraits of the entrepreneurs reacting to the unbanking of America by designing systems to creatively serve those outside the one percent. “Valuable evidence on the fragility of the personal economies of most Americans these days.”—Kirkus Reviews “An intelligent plea for financial justice…[An] excellent book.”—The Christian Science Monitor
Loan Sharks the Rise and Rise of Payday Lending
Loan Sharks the Rise and Rise of Payday Lending - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loan Sharks the Rise and Rise of Payday Lending write by Carl Packman. This book was released on 2014-08-03. Loan Sharks the Rise and Rise of Payday Lending available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the publication of the first edition of my book Loan Sharks I heard some very well meaning criticisms of my work, along the lines of the following: we realise that payday lending is bad but it is only a symptom, not a cause, of the economic crisis we find ourselves in today - therefore should we not focus our attention on taking down the whole system which has allowed this type of industry to proliferate? However we still need to account for why it is that predatory lenders have profited so much off the back of the financially vulnerable, and hold companies to account for their codes of conduct... Banks fall over themselves to lend to rich customers who promise large glittering deposits and low risks. They tempt them with sweet deals and low rates. The less well-off are treated very differently. Many at the bottom are denied credit from mainstream lenders, or forced to pay higher premiums. In the wake of the financial crisis, more of us are slipping into this category. We are compelled to find credit elsewhere. Payday loans are therefore on the rise.
The Cost of Payday Loans
The Cost of Payday Loans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cost of Payday Loans write by . This book was released on 2006. The Cost of Payday Loans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bad Paper
Bad Paper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Paper write by Jake Halpern. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Bad Paper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"—the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs. Introducing an unforgettable cast of strivers and rogues, Jake Halpern chronicles their lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. He also tracks a "package" of debt that is stolen by unscrupulous collectors, leading to a dramatic showdown with guns in a Buffalo corner store. Along the way, he reveals the human cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and permits banks to ignore their former customers. The result is a vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.
