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Loan sharks : the birth of predatory lending / / Charles R. Geisst



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Autore: Geisst Charles R. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Loan sharks : the birth of predatory lending / / Charles R. Geisst Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2017
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 332.8/3097309041
Soggetto topico: Usury - United States - History
Consumer credit - United States - History
Finance - United States - History
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- A populist issue -- A venerable practice -- The states attack -- The Crash as a credit event -- The Great Depression -- Postscript.
Sommario/riassunto: Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today. Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much? Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much of the period from the Civil War to the onset of the early decades of the twentieth century. Newspapers called the practice #x93;loan sharking" because lenders employed the same ruthlessness as the great predators in the ocean. Slowly state and federal governments adopted laws and regulations curtailing the practice.
Titolo autorizzato: Loan sharks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8157-2901-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813488003321
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