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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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...
Move Over, Payday Loans
We periodically hear calls for the state to tighten its payday loan regulations and to keep interest rates down. Such...
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...
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...
Can The Market Provide Cheaper Short-Term Loans?
This article in the Kansas City Star is a must-read for anyone interested in payday lending. Here are some of...
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...
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:...
Helping the Poor by Denying Them Access to Money
In yet another case of good intentions gone bad, the bill Congress passed last year to reform the credit card...
In Which I Am Compared to the Devil
One legislative sponsor of legislation to cap interest rates on Missouri’s payday loans, responded to my op-ed on the subject...
Post-Dispatch Prefers Broken Legs Over Court Dates!
The editorial board for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently published a piece denouncing politicians who support payday loans. The editorial...
Restricting Credit for Poor People
I’m sure that “restricting credit for poor people” is not the phrase supporters of capping interest rates on short-term loans...
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