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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geisst, Charles R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A populist issue
  • A venerable practice
  • The states attack
  • The Crash as a credit event
  • The Great Depression
  • Postscript.

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