Payday Loan

This City's Not Letting Any More Payday Lenders Set Up Shop

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.18.2012

Not all residents of the wealthy Silicon Valley are flush with cash. Turns out payday lending -- a type of short-term, high-interest loan that can...

Catherine New

Payday Hound Site Points To Alleged Illegal Lender, Offshore Loans

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 05.04.2012

A new online comparison site may be serving as a gateway to dangerous lending practices. The newly launched Payday Hound website advertises itsel...

Catherine New

Look Who's Outsourcing

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 02.21.2012

Even scam artists are outsourcing. On Tuesday in its first crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing in South Asia, the Federal Trade Commission announced...

Arthur Delaney

Extended Unemployment Could Outlast Extended Unemployment Insurance

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The government announced Friday morning that the unemployment situation barely changed in October. The unemployment rate has been stuck ...

Online Lenders Fight Regulation (VIDEO)

David Murdock | Posted 05.25.2011

David Murdock

Payday loan offices were sprouting up in strip malls across America for years before Wall Street collapsed last fall -- quiet evidence that hard times began hitting working families long ago.