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U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies during the Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

CFPB drops mobile-home loan lawsuit

Cara Michelle Smith
Cash, tax forms and a calculator (Getty Images/Thanasis)

Tax advance refund loans come with risks

Zina Kumok
Sending money through phones (Getty Images/sefa ozel)

Cash advance apps: The new loan sharks?

Cara Michelle Smith
A customer making a contactless payment using a credit card. (Getty Images/VioletaStoimenova)

Credit card defaults are soaring

Daria Solovieva
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Kyle Gardner explorers storm damage near the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Federal disaster loan program at risk

Natalie Chandler
Peter Brimelow (Getty Images)

White nationalist's PPP loan forgiven

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys (L) and Joe Biggs (R) gather outside of Harry's bar during a protest on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Proud Boys leader took PPP loans

Jon Skolnik
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/AP Photo)

Trump taxes handed over to Manhattan DA

Jon Skolnik
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Kanye West (Getty/Oliver Contreras)

Who in Hollywood got PPP loans?

Ted Johnson - Deadline
(AP/Elaine Thompson)

"Smells like debtors prison"

Anjali Tsui - ProPublica
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The new debtors prisons

Anjali Tsui - ProPublica
FILE - This April 3, 2015, file photo, shows an ACE Cash Express outlet on San Mateo Boulevard in Albuquerque, N.M. The outlet sits on a block which has several small loan storefronts. The lenders who advance people money on their paychecks charge exorbitant interest rates that often snare the most vulnerable customers in a cycle of debt, the industry’s critics have long said. Yet even consumer advocates who loathe the industry admit it fulfills a need: Providing small amounts of cash quickly to people who can’t qualify for credit cards or a bank loan. (AP Photo/Vik Jolly, File) (AP)

Sanders, AOC want to cap interest rates

Anne Fleming - The Conversation
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Elizabeth Rose, a specialist with Lehman Brothers MarketMakers, works her post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. (AP/David Karp)

Big business, little stability

Anjan V. Thakor - The Conversation
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 9, 2015, file photo, a "Sold" sign is displayed in the yard of a newly-constructed home in the Briar Chapel community in Chapel Hill, N.C. On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, Freddie Mac reports on the week's average U.S. mortgage rates. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) (AP)

Ever thought about shopping for a loan?

Christopher Palmer - The Conversation
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How hospital loans exploit patients

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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ACLU exposes debt collectors

Matthew Rozsa
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Uber is buying in

Angelo Young
Ann Coulter (AP/Peter Kramer)

College makes you hate the GOP

Joanna Rothkopf
(Reuters/Robert Galbraith)

"Ongoing criminal enterprise"

David Dayen
(AP/Matt Rourke)

Give student loans the finger

Kyle Schmidlin
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(AP/Seth Perlman)

"We hope they were duped"

David Dayen
Eric Holder (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Massive new fraud coverup

David Dayen
Demonstrators picket outside the Wells Fargo corporate headquarters in San Francisco. (Reuters/Stephen Lam)

Populism beats payday lenders

Sally Kohn
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The new subprime crisis: Cars!

David Dayen
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