Loan Sharks : The Birth of Predatory Lending /

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Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today. Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much? Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much of the period...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geisst, Charles R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Usury.
Finance.
Consumer credit.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Credit à la consommation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Usure > États-Unis > Histoire.
Finance > United States > History.
Consumer credit > United States > History.
Usury > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A populist issue
  • A venerable practice
  • The states attack
  • The Crash as a credit event
  • The Great Depression
  • Postscript.

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