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Op-Ed
Elizabeth Warren Came to Dance On a Grave. The Corpse Was at Home
Sen. Elizabeth Warren spent months demanding regulators kill Enova International’s bank deal. On Sept. 14 she got her wish. Enova announced a buyback. As funerals go, it was upbeat. Enova withdrew its applications with the Comptroller…
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Op-Ed
My Retirement Accounts Fail In the World I Actually Live In
The rich already invest this way. Workers should be allowed to as well.
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Op-Ed
Credit Card Rate Caps Will Lead To a Shortage of Credit Cards
Why a national credit card rate cap would shrink access and worsen inequality.
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Op-Ed
Stablecoin Rewards Are the Shortcut to Financial Trouble
Why should Congress uphold the GENIUS Act’s ban on stablecoin rewards to prevent digital money from becoming digital debt?
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Op-Ed
Sen. Richard Durbin’s Long-Term Love Affair With Price Controls
Senator Dick Durbin has spent much of his career in a love affair with price controls. He flirted with them in his infamous Durbin Amendment, the addendum to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. He renewed his vows…
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Op-Ed
The CFPB Is Making It Harder For You To Pay Your Bills
The CFPB’s outdated rule on small-dollar lending punishes working-class Americans by restricting access to the very credit they rely on to make ends meet.
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Op-Ed
The Real World Intrudes On Sanders and Hawley’s Rate Cap
A national credit card rate cap may seem consumer-friendly, but history and state-level experiments shows it shrinks credit access and pushes borrowers toward costlier alternatives.
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Op-Ed
Need a $200 Loan? You’re Mostly Outta Luck
Originally published at realclearmarkets.com on June 21, 2023 In New Mexico, an interest rate cap on specialized emergency loans when into effect in January. Since then, big-bank promoters have endorsed the small-dollar short-term loan products offered by U.S. Bank, Bank…
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