Usury Laws

Payday Loans: Large Banks Push High-Interest Loans On Their Customers

startribune.com | CHRIS SERRES, Star Tribune | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


A few of the nation's largest banks -- including Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. of San Francisco, and Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincin...

An Ancient Basis for Tomorrow's Financial Regulations: Rethinking Usury Law

Jay Michaelson | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics


Jay Michaelson

To ban or heavily regulate usurious derivative securities is not socialism. It is Christianity and Judaism.

Ryan Grim

Sanders To Introduce Bill To Cap Credit Card Rates At 15 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics


Banks that have thanked taxpayers for bailout cash by jacking up credit card interest rates have sparked a backlash on Capitol Hill. Majority Whip Dic...