The Payday Lending Industry and CFPB Overreach
The Payday Lending Industry and CFPB Overreach
The payday lending industry is increasingly gaining support from some surprising sources in its campaign against CFPB overreach and the agency 's purported plans to regulate payday lending out of business. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was established in 2010 to protect consumers from predatory lending practices, was originally expected to limit payday lending severely or attempt to abolish it entirely. The CFPB was granted extraordinary regulatory powers that weren 't subject to the traditional checks and balances of free enterprise, legislative debate and judicial review.
Fortunately for people with bad credit and few financial resources, payday lending has lots of grassroots and political support, which consumer advocates and political opponents of the industry grossly underestimated but are gradually realizing due to the groundswell of support for short-term loans from disenfranchised U.S. citizens. Opposition to the CFPB and its unregulated practices have united payday lenders and the industry’s critics on the subject of regulatory overreach.
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CFPB Overreach Ignites Opposition from Traditional Lenders and the Payday Lending Industry
A surprising aspect of the Bureau 's policies involves the CFPB 's determination to expand its powers beyond its legislative mandate. The agency has generated furious political conflict by attempting to regulate banks, traditional lenders, auto finance companies and dealership financing departments. Democrats, often credited with leading the fight that created the agency, have crossed the political aisle to nullify CFPB regulations that targeted automobile lenders and charged them with routine racial discrimination practices. The list of complaints against the CFPB
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This act was created in hope of establishing a form of economic stability establishing the Central Bank. The Federal Reserve Act has been identified as one of the most influential laws in relation to the United State’s financial system. This act called for eight to twelve regional Reserve Banks that would be owned by commercial banks and their actions would be monitored by the President. Once that was accomplished, the Federal Reserve System would become a privately owned banking system that would be ran by the public. Bankers would run the bank, but the Federal Reserve Board would monitor their actions to make sure everything went smoothly.
A big supporter of the less regulation bill is Senator Jon Tester a Democrat from Montana. He is apart of the Banking Committee and wants the bill to pass in favor of the less strict regulations. Many other Democrats in the Banking Committee claim that he is a very moderate leaning on a lot of issues politically. Many other democrats however are in favor of the less stricter regulations and feel that it will help the economy and smaller banks out dramatically. The article shows that the Republicans will have the support they need for this bill to become law and with the Democrats helping.
The University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) has taken a unique approach to improving revenue and reducing bad debt. By taking “a proactive, patient-friendly approach to communicating with patients about their financial responsibility through an integrated revenue cycle model,” UPMC has increased patient payments from an average of $16 million per month in 2012 to an average of $20 million per month since March 2013 (Langford, 2013, p. 88). Additionally, UPMC has been able to “significantly reduced bad debt and enhanced patient relationships through greater financial advocacy” (Langford, 2013, p. 88). In the fiscal year of 2009, UPMC’s bad debt accounted for 52% of UPMC’s uncompensated care, and as of 2013, the bad debt accounts for 24%
A controversial issue in politics is campaign finance reform. Today’s political campaigns are largely funded by the wealthy elite in America and the corporations they own and fund. Currently, campaigns and campaign finances are government by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The FEC is “the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the Presidency and the Vice Presidency” (The FEC).
Columnist Scott Gilmore brings to light the operations of payday loan companies and the impact that they have on society. Although the payday loan companies seem to take advantage of the financially vulnerable members of society, perhaps the true fault lies within the education of society. A devastatingly large portion of society seeks out payday loans, and the results are appalling. As mentioned by Gilmore in the article, “[A correlation was found] between the number of payday lenders in a neighborhood and premature mortality”. This reveals a lot regarding the repercussions of seeking out loans that in turn create greater loans.
Those sources include, “Government Accountability Office,” “Consumers Financial Protection Bureau,” and also “Federal Data.” By using these sources the Editorial Board boosts their credibility and can convince their audience know that they have expert opinions in their article. The audience in this case, is more to the Government organizations that are in charge of collecting the debt, or we can also say that this article can be faced toward students that are thinking of getting loans. Which also serves as an awareness to the students on how the government deals with people caring that burden of debt. Although they provide Ethos appeal, they do not provide any personal credibility.
It's undeniable that people become trapped in cycles of debt, but this also applies to traditional loans, credit cards, auto financing and home mortgages. The banking industry's mistakes during the mortgage crisis of 2008 are well-documented, but attacking the payday loan industry refocuses consumer outrage against traditional lenders to an easy-to-attack scapegoat: payday lenders. Regular New Yorkers -- which includes students, veterans, retirees and people who've made a few mistakes managing their credit --
The Federal government could’ve intervened to discipline these owners to make them realize the
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It is clear to understand while reading, that the working poor are easy targets of abuse by these institutions. Check cashing facilities offer a sense of false hope for the poor who need a “quick loan” to get out of a financial crisis. In chapter one, Shiper discusses the misleading information given by these facilities, such as the interest rates or appealing promises that have bad end results.
Thus, it stands to reason that the article’s purpose is to support the argument that predatory lending practices are at fault for the debt young adults experience. Macias uses personal experience immediately peppering in researched data to support his findings and conclusions on how the credit card industry wholeheartedly takes advantage of young America. His article captures the reader’s focus by appealing to pathos and tugging at pity in the reciting of how Macias was taken advantage of by credit lenders. Carlos Macias’s argument for the debt accrued by college aged adults being the fault of the credit card companies themselves roots itself in his rhetoric. From his skillful hooking of the audience with information garnered from personal experience to the utilization of logos throughout the paper presenting itself as careful and reliable research.
STUDENT LOAN SYSTEM MEMORANDUM 27 October 2015 FROM: Christopher Moore RE: Four recommendations from the Department of Education on systems that would help protect student loan borrowers READ BY DATE: No deadline "Strengthen Federal Student Loan Servicing" • Create an outright ban on the marketing of other financial products by lenders to student borrowers. • Revise credit reporting to include recognition of borrowers in good standing, reflect the complexity of Federal repayment options, and ensure equal treatment of all borrowers. •
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