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Federal Rules Make Predatory Loans Legal & Lawful
With all the yelling and screaming in Washington regarding financial reform the fact remains that predatory lending remains perfectly legal and will be perfectly legal once a financial reform package is passed.
“The Wall Street reform bill in Congress represents the strongest consumer financial protections in history,” says President Obama. “You’ll be empowered with the clear [...]
No Predatory Lending In 2008?
The FBI is out with its latest annual mortgage fraud tally and the news is fairly grim: Despite a reduction in loan originations, fraud filings from financial institutions increased 36 percent to 63,713 in fiscal 2008 compared to 46,717 filings a year earlier.
This is an unhappy statistic, but it does not tell the whole story. [...]