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- Usury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury 9 comments
- Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/scary-fraud-ensues-when-id-theft-usury-collide/ 90 comments
- Freicoin: a P2P digital currency delivering freedom from usury http://freico.in/ 64 comments
- Usury and the collapse of empires http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/08/09/usury-and-the-collapse-of-empires/ 9 comments
- ‘An illegal, usurious loan’: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell files new RICO lawsuit against another lending company over ‘sham’ $1.5 million loan with 409% interest rate https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/an-illegal-usurious-loan-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-files-new-rico-lawsuit-against-another-lending-company-over-sham-1-5-million-loan-with-409-interest-rate/ 28 comments law
- Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as 'greedy or usurious' person https://www.timesofisrael.com/outcry-over-official-spanish-definition-of-jew-as-greedy-or-usurious-person/ 540 comments worldnews
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Hitler Fought The European Jews Because Of Their Usury, Money Dealings; It Was Not About Antisemitism https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-denies-jewish-connection-israel-hitler-fought-jews-usury-not-antisemitism 13 comments worldnews
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Hitler Fought The European Jews Because Of Their Usury, Money Dealings; It Was Not About Antisemitism https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-denies-jewish-connection-israel-hitler-fought-jews-usury-not-antisemitism 6 comments worldnews
- Turkish lira hits turbulence as Erdogan cites Islam as reason for monetary policy: "Concept that charging interest on loans or borrowed money is usury. " https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-lira-hits-turbulence-as-erdogan-cites-islam-as-reason-for-monetary-policy/a-60202309 117 comments economics
- A New Role for an Old Rule: Usury and Speculation https://www.prindlepost.org/2021/02/a-new-role-for-an-old-rule-usury-and-speculation/ 15 comments philosophy
- When is usury usury? Turkish fatwa casts doubt on Erdogan’s religious soft power drive https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/01/24/when-is-usury-usury-turkish-fatwa-casts-doubt-on-erdogans-religious-soft-power-drive/ 8 comments geopolitics
- Manager of J-Medical (Juventus medical centre), Giuliano Pastore, has been arrested along other 15 people. Accusations brought are extortion, usury and money laundering, aggrevated by mafia methods https://www.tuttojuve.com/altre-notizie/dirigente-del-jmedical-finisce-in-manette-e-giuliano-pastore-488139 17 comments soccer
- Letter: Trump stops rules against usury https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2019/02/10/letter-trump-stops-rules/ 28 comments politics
- Pope Francis: ‘Usury humiliates and kills’ http://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-02/pope-francis-usury-financial-exploitation.html 32 comments europe
- How did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance? https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-usury-stop-being-a-sin-and-become-respectable-finance 3 comments economy
- Usury in the medieval ages, particularly during the commercial revolution https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/5h47me/usury_in_the_medieval_ages_particularly_during/ 9 comments history
- Argentinian president invokes Shylock, angers Jewish community | "You have to read The Merchant of Venice to understand the vulture funds. Usury and bloodsuckers have been immortalized in the greatest literature." http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/77677-150708-argentinian-president-invokes-shylock-angers-jewish-community 8 comments worldnews
- The Debt-Collecting Machine: Mysterious Aeon Financial buys tax liens and then forecloses on homeowners when they fail to pay usurious legal fees http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/08/debt-collecting-machine/ 5 comments politics
- Freicoin: a P2P digital currency delivering freedom from usury http://freico.in/ 5 comments technology
- Some ways of “getting rich” are corrosive, not productive: The wealthiest 10% have gotten rich mainly by getting the bottom 90% into debt; this is a regression to the ancient usury problem that destroyed Rome. http://michael-hudson.com/2012/09/surviving-progress-transcript/ 670 comments politics
- Seniors' Social Security Garnished for Student Debts: Congress has removed nearly every consumer protection from student loans, including not only standard bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations and truth in lending requirements, but protection from usury http://truth-out.org/news/item/9054-indentured-servitude-for-seniors-social-security-garnished-for-student-debts 6 comments politics
- PBS: With No Interest Limits, Arbitrary Rates & Fees, Credit Card Companies Earn More Than Microsoft or Walmart. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that credit card issuers could charge out-of-state customers whatever rate was legal in the issuer's home state so states eliminated usury laws. http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2000/942/with_no_interest_limits,_arbitrary_rates_fees,_credit_card_companies_earn_more_than_microsoft,_walmart_and_americans_take_on_more_dishonest_debt..html 35 comments business
- The Last Thing The Powers That Be Want Is For Iceland To Become An Example Of How To Break With Usurious Debt “Obligations” http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1361/898/the_last_thing_the_powers_that_be_want_is_for_iceland_to_become_an_example_of_how_to_break_with_usurious_debt_obligations_._heres_why:.html 8 comments economy
- Bernie Sanders: Six Demands to Make of Wall Street | 1) If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. 2) Put a cap on credit card interest rates to end usury... 5) Demand that Wall Street invest in the job-creating productive economy, instead of gambling on derivatives. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/12-6 122 comments politics
- World War II was fought to make the world safe for usury – to ensure the permanent enslavement of mankind through debt and interest. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/26/was-world-war-ii-fought-to-make-the-world-safe-for-usury/ 6 comments politics
- Under Bush Congress ended bankruptcy protections, refinancing rights, statutes of limitations, truth in lending and state usury laws when applied to federally guaranteed student loans. Now lenders may garnish wages, income tax refunds, earned income tax credits, as well as SS and disability income. http://rense.com/general94/amstuden.htm 9 comments politics
- C-SPAN As Red Pill: Camera Catches Senate Vote-Switching to Protect Credit Card Usury http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/19/885622/-c-span-as-red-pill:-camera-catches-senate-vote-switching-to-protect-credit-card-usury 38 comments politics
- C-SPAN As Red Pill: Camera Catches Senate Vote-Switching to Protect Credit Card Usury http://www.openleft.com/diary/19500/cspan-as-red-pill-camera-catches-senate-vote-switching-to-protect-credit-card-usury 14 comments politics
- The Anti-Savings Model – Offer 0.1% APY on Savings Accounts and Charge 15% on Credit Cards. A System Designed to Punish Savers and Encourage Extravagant Spending via Usury. http://www.mybudget360.com/the-anti-savings-model-%E2%80%93-offer-0-1-apy-on-savings-accounts-and-charge-15-on-credit-cards-a-system-designed-to-punish-savers-and-encourage-extravagant-spending-via-usury/ 9 comments economy
- "Given the numerous verses in the Bible explicitly forbidding it -- far more than all the scriptural references to abortion or homosexuality added together -- you'd think in a "Christian" society, with so many politically-engaged self-professed Bible-believers, usury would be a hot button issue." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/22-7 124 comments politics
- The Nation: "Stop Usury Now" -- Finally, someone is calling the mega-banks' interest rates what they really are. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/greider2 3 comments politics
- Until 1979, credit card interest was subject to usury limits of the various states. But the Supreme Court emasculated these limits, ruling that the state of the lender, not the borrower, had the sole power to legislate interest rate limits. South Dakota swiftly jumped into the void http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/05/22/obamas-credit-card-reform-is-a-fraud/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Banks like Citigroup-owned Banamex get away with charging Mexican credit account-holders usurious interest rates of up to 100 percent. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15356 14 comments worldnews
- “We dismantled the most ancient of human laws, the law against usury, which had existed in some form in every civilization from the time of the Babylonian Empire to the end of Jimmy Carter’s term.” http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/24/thomas_geoghegan_on_infinite_debt_how 15 comments politics
- Goodbye dollar? 6 Persian Gulf countries to unite in issuing a new, gold-backed currency as insurance against economic collapse, and to comply with Islamic interdictions against usury http://news.goldseek.com/goldseek/1234884520.php 10 comments reddit.com
- Islamic Banking: No charging of usury or interest, money backed by gold, fully collateralized lending; No wonder the Western money changers are at war with them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islamic_banking 27 comments business
- Usury and the Roman Republic http://the-liberatore.blogspot.com/2008/08/usury-and-roman-republic.html 7 comments history
- U.S. credit card debt $952 billion and growing--are usurious bank fees part of the problem? http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/plastic_problems.html 8 comments reddit.com