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  • The Largest Predatory Lender in America

    09/29/2016 5:28:11 AM PDT · by Hojczyk · 18 replies
    Weekly Standard ^ | September 29,2016 | | By KEVIN COCHRANE
    What would you think of a lender that has holds more than one $1 trillion in loans outstanding, targets low income and minority borrowers, has a payment delinquency and default rate in excess of 25 percent, and has postponed repayment on 14 percent of its loans, but is still accruing interest on them? Wouldn't you think that some government agency—say, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve, or even Congress—would be investigating this perfect definition of a predatory lender and trying to shut it down? Roughly 45 percent of people that enroll in college ultimately drop out without ever...