Blogs: Predatory Lending

The main premises of the documentary and book are that banks and other creditors deliberately market to people who are more likely to have problems paying predatory lending and that the creditors benefit from connections to government, ...

Congress should back legislation that criminalizes predatory lending and otherwise prescribes sanctions for financial misdeeds known to harm the public. Financial regulators need greater resources to investigate and prosecute such acts. ...

As Attorney General, I will continue to hold powerful interests accountable, from corrupt politicians to insurance companies, from the gun lobby to financial institutions, from Wall Street banks to predatory lending scams in our ...

The extended right of rescission is a powerful tool to help borrowers who have been victims of predatory lending. During a Forensic Mortgage Loan Audit we often discover TILA violations, which can be used as leverage when negotiating a ...

To be sure, Obama used the opportunity to expound on the importance of the new agency, which will monitor credit-card fees and mortgage offerings to make sure consumers are protected from predatory lending. It all sounds like a fruitful ...

Rising gas prices, not just a lack of consumer credit – especially the bad credit used in predatory lending – ultimately also helped hammer auto sales far down from peak levels. Since 80 percent of consumers use gasoline prices as a key ...

IS there a Notary in the house? By 2bgrand in forum Predatory Lending & Mortgage Law. Replies: 5. Last Post: 03-17-2009, 04:43 PM. Posting Permissions. You may not post new threads; You may not post replies; You may not post attachments ...

In fact, David Harmer has over a decade of experience as a corporate lawyer for some of the country's most notorious credit card, debt collection, and predatory lending corporations, including Providian Financial, Washington Mutual, ...

President Obama's empty promise to fight for legislation that would have permitted scores of people facing foreclosure - many of whom were African Americans preyed upon by predatory lending institutions - an opportunity to have their ...

This pop was caused after housing costs rose to unaffordable levels via predatory lending, and corporate greed and PINSTINE was supposed to be regulating this for the president bush, but didn't do his job! ...