On AlterNet: predatory lending

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Budget Compromise Slashes Funds for Organizations That Help Poor Deal With Predatory Lending, Domestic Violence, Foreclosures

Marian Wang, ProPublica. May 16, 2011.

Providers of civil legal services to the poor are having to furlough their staff, triage their clients, and turn away more people in need.

Why Banks Try to Make Borrowers Feel Like Sinners When They Can't Pay off Their Mortgages

Zach Carter, AlterNet. June 5, 2010.

Crazy views about homeownership are helping the very bankers who screwed us in the first place.

Profiting From Recession, Payday Lenders Spend Big to Fight Regulation

Keith Epstein, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. March 2, 2010.

Industry steps up lobbying efforts as the Senate grapples with financial reform.

How Chase Bank Has Left Homeowners in Limbo

Paul Kiel, ProPublica. February 4, 2010.

Homeowners who may well be eligible for the mortgage loan modification program are being denied because their troubles were not deemed "permanent."

10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You

Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 19, 2009.

Tired of getting pushed around by faceless big business? Here are 10 ways to push back!

Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need

Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.

Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.

Online Payday Loan Industry Wants to Keep Charging Obscene Interest Rates

Lagan Sebert, David Murdock, Huffington Post, American News Project. June 5, 2009.

More people than ever are using payday loans to keep bill collectors at bay, paying annual rates as high as 700%.

America's Debt Complex: FBI Finally Cracks Down on Mortgage Crime Wave

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 24, 2008.

With trillions already lost, is the FBI's action too little too late?

Supreme Court gives gift to predatory lenders

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. April 19, 2007.

Nathan Newman: State banking laws have just been thrown out the window.

The Myth of the Risky Sub-Prime Borrower

Mark Winston Griffith, AlterNet. April 9, 2007.

Money lending institutions have tarred entire segments of the population as credit unworthy through the mortgage industry's own discriminatory, irresponsible -- and now reckless -- behavior.

Attack of the Mortgage Vultures

Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive. April 5, 2007.

Over the last decade, we have been witnessing some of the most brazen acts of mortgage entrapment ever to hit the American housing market.