Usury

Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Social Security, Student Debt, Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing, Public Banking, Bank Bailout, Usury, Free Tuition, Business News
Ellen Brown

U.S. taxpayers now pay nearly half a trillion dollars annually to finance our federal debt. By financing the debt itself rather than paying interest to private parties, the government could divert what it would have paid in interest into tuition, jobs, infrastructure and social services.

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Usury Is Alive And Well

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: New Testament, Deuteronomy, Council of Nicea, Payday, Israelites, Predatory, Interest, Christianity, Christian Social Justice, Usury, Religion News
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI

The emergence of practices like "payday" and "predatory" lending deserve the scrutiny of religious leaders and people of faith.

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Alabama's Largest City Looks For Alternatives To Payday Lenders

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Birmingham, Richard Cordray, Payday Lending, Debt, Consumer Debt, Poverty, Payday Lenders, Wages, Payday Loans, Bank On, Usury, Birmingham Payday Lenders, Video, Alabama, Unemployment, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cfpb, Debt Cycle, Financial Regulation, Birmingham Payday Lending, Business News

The biggest city in Alabama is putting its payday lenders on notice. Bankers and community leaders in Birmingham, Alabama met Thursday to discuss d...

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Arizona PayDay Lenders Leave After Voters Boot High-Interest Loans

AP | MICHELLE PRICE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 200, Advance America, Payday Lenders, Short Term Loans, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Payday Loans, Operation Sunset, Interest Rates, Arizona, Check 'N Go, Advance America Cash Advance, Usury, Politics News

PHOENIX — Another payday lending company's decision to leave the state shows the expiration of a law that allowed high-interest loans is working...

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Greece: Is It the First Domino to Fall?

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Greece Debt, Greece Riots, Greece, Tea Party, Usury, Greece Debt Crisis, Business News
Dr. Behzad Mohit

The Grecian revolt may prove to be the forerunner of similar events in Spain, Portugal, and across Europe. Our own Tea Party activism may be an intuitive awakening of people who feel it in their gut that something is not quite right.

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'Move Those Dollars': Anti-Usury Campaign Shares Principles With Move Your Money (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 10% Is Enough, Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, Too Big to Fail, 10 Percent Is Enough, Move Your Money, Mym, Metro IAF, Massachusetts, Move Those Dollars, Big Banks, Usury, Video, Business News

It may have sounded like music to the ears of Move Your Money proponents. Chants of "move those dollars" and "move that money" rang out last week i...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Dems Who Voted To Break Up Megabanks 2 Weeks Ago NOW Vote To Protect Their High Credit Card Rates

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Reform, Financial Reform, Delaware, Financial Crisis, Credit Card Rates, Credit Cards, Usury, Financial Regulation, Consumers, Business News

Of all the financial reform rules debated in the past few weeks, few would have impacted as many consumers as the one championed by Sen. Sheldon White...

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How to Live on $0 a Day: Get in Touch With Your Inner Savvy Businessman

Lesley Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business Tips, Savvy Businessmen, Depression, Wall Street, Humor, Economy, Economic Crisis, Ponzi Scheme, Financial Crisis, Bankers, Insurance Companies, Comedy, Recession, Financial Advice, Crowdsourcing, Usury, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Note to men: unless your wife has a paying job or a trust fund, you'll want to get rid of her and all other dead weight. As you become more savvy, you'll probably want a brand new trophy wife.

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How Barack Can Get His Groove Back

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Populism, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama State of the Union, Usury Laws, Massachusetts Senate Race, Democratic Party, The Interests, Barack Obama, Usury, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

All President Obama needs to do to rally a substantial majority of the American people to his side is to make it clear that he is on their side and against their real enemies.

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The Unwise Men's Gifts to Obama

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, Economic Royalists, Which Side Are You On, Christmas, Financial Crisis, Franklin Roosevelt, 1936 Election, Barack Obama, Usury, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

'Tis the season for gift giving, and the President of the United States is in need of presents. Barack Obama could use some gifts to cheer him up and get his presidency back on track.

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Obama Calls for An Extreme Makeover of Our Culture: Are the Credit Card Companies Listening? [Updated]

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Administration, Financial Crisis, Real Time With Bill Maher, Credit Crisis, Obama Economy, Credit Cards, Barack Obama, Credit Card Industry, Ryan Grim, Usury, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

In The Divine Comedy Dante assigned usurers to the seventh circle of hell. The Senate obviously needs a refresher course -- since it overwhelming voted down Bernie Sanders' measure that would cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent.

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Let's Try Something Different This Time

Saul Segan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Taking Back the Country, New Age, Obama Administration, Saul Segan, Bank Thievery, Usury, Credit Card Abuse, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Saul Segan

Love is the most powerful remedial force in our universe -- it may come across sounding "corny" but I think in our tenuous day and age, this world might do well with a little more corn.

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The Consequences of (Yet Again) Failing to Stand Up to the Banks

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Cramdown, Financial Crisis, Bank Lending, Usury, Business News
Ian Welsh

Does anyone wonder why consumer spending dropped again? Would you borrow at 20% to 40% to buy anything other than food or pay for housing?

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This Week in Magazines: A Jihad on Behalf of Usury Laws, An "Idiot's Guide to Pakistan," and The Agenda for K Street's Trout Lobbyists

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: This Week in Magazines, New Yorker, Tim Geithner, Harpers Magazine, Larry Summers, Usury, Media News
James Warren

Geithner and Summers don't mention ancient Babylonia in addressing the financial crisis. But Chicago attorney Thomas Geoghegan sure does in Harper's "Infinite Debt."

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A Forerunner of Credit Card Debt Helped Spawn the Revolutionary War

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Debt, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Credit CARD Act, Usury, Business News
Russ Wellen

Even George Washington had reasons other than unadulterated fealty to Lady Liberty for rejecting foreign rule. In fact, what galvanized him was the 18th century version of credit card debt.

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Credit Card Firms Back In Hot Seat

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Credit Cards, Credit, Lending, Interest Rates, Credit Reform, Usury, Politics News

Longtime supporters of credit card reform have a new weapon in their rhetorical arsenal: the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. "The big banks got bil...

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