Missouri Legislature Looks to Further Regulate Payday Loans
Payday loans are high-interest, short-term loans that are most commonly used in low-income communities. Because high interest rates (often above...
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It’s Official: Payday Lending, Minimum Wage Initiatives Off November Ballot
Supporters of two proposed Missouri ballot measures have thrown in the towel weeks after the Secretary of State’s office announced...
Musings On Payday Loans And Pawn Shops In Jackson County
Jackson County is considering forcing new pawnbrokers and short-term loan shops in unincorporated areas to locate at least 2,500 feet...
Show-Me Institute Free-Market Field Trip No. 2: Payday Loans
In this video, policy analyst David Stokes, accompanied by two research assistants, endeavors to get to the heart of the...
Payday Loans vs. Loan Sharks
This old article from the Sacramento News & Review contains some interesting sentences about sub-prime credit: While the Chicago Outfit...
David Stokes Takes Out a Payday Loan
Check out the latest entry in our series of economic performance art pieces, in which I take out a payday...
Payday Policymaking
Consider: There are more payday loan storefronts in the United States than there are McDonald’s and Starbucks outlets combined. Also...
Will Payday Loan Regulations Kill the Market?
The Springfield News-Leader today features a good op-ed about current plans for regulating Missouri’s payday loan industry. Good bit: The...
Lack of Economic Basis For Payday Loan Limitations
Today’s Springfield News-Leader has an op-ed (link via Combest) written by a state rep who is seeking to promote the...
Payday Loan Reading List
One problem with the debate over payday loan regulation in Missouri and elsewhere is a lack of sustained focus on...
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:...
Corinthian College Crisis
At its peak Corinthian Colleges had over 100 colleges throughout the United States and Canada, including Everest College campuses in Earth City, Kansas...
‘Right To Try’ Law Gets Gov. Nixon’s Signature
Today is the last day for Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to veto or sign legislation that the 2014 General Assembly passed....
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