- Looting the Poor: Credit companies, payday lenders, have become loan sharks; charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. When topped with late fees (themselves subject to interest), the resulting effective interest rate can be as high as 600% a year, which is perfectly legal in many states. http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175543/ 95 comments politics
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