Payday Loan Reading List
One problem with the debate over payday loan regulation in Missouri and elsewhere is a lack of sustained focus on...
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Payday Loan Industry Bad; Mob Racketeering Good
Yesterday in St. Louis, opponents of the payday loan industry held a hearing, which was covered by the Post-Dispatch and linked...
Payday Loan Industry in the News
Some legislators held a hearing the other day on the harms caused by the payday loan industry. Combest has linked...
Payday Loan Regulations Are Misguided
The Post-Dispatch featured an article this week exploring how “Payday loan dispute does not slow use.” The article focuses on...
Move Over, Payday Loans
We periodically hear calls for the state to tighten its payday loan regulations and to keep interest rates down. Such...
A New Payday Pundit
The Springfield News-Leader has another op-ed on payday lending today. The author, Ryan Cooper, has a great anecdote at the...
PACE Loans Are Out of Line
A decade ago, Missouri created the Property Assessment Clean Energy (PACE) loan program to help homeowners and businesses get loans...
Moody’s Issues Negative Outlook for Kansas CIty
We’ve written before about Kansas City’s debilitating level of debt (here and here and here). And it isn’t just us;...
Kansas City Deep in Debt
Back in 2013, when we examined Kansas City’s spending relative to other regional peer cities, what we found wasn’t good:...
