"… program, allowing them to charge significantly more in fees. At Mountain America Federal Credit Union in Utah, a five-day $100 “MyInstaCash” loan costs …"

"… enders. An iWatch News investigation found 15 credit unions like Mountain America that continue to offer high-cost loans that closely resemble the payday lo …"

"… t Union in North Carolina to the high triple-digits loans sold by Mountain America. It has become a fast-growing trend in an industry struggling to remake it …"

"… clined to discuss their profitability, but NCUA filings show that Mountain America Financial Services -- which administers the Mountain America credit union …"

"… in in the Congress that ended in December.The Financial Service Centers of America (FiSCA), which represents many payday lenders, even even moved its nationa …"

"… cial role our industry plays in meeting the financial needs of millions of Americans every day. This has become FiSCA’s Number One mission,” the group sa …"

"… ight, some high-interest payday lenders have found unlikely allies: Native American tribes.In legal fights in California, New Mexico, West Virginia and Color …"

"… outside state oversight — even when they’re making loans to non-Native Americans living far from Indian lands.State regulators and consumer lawyers say t …"

"… say that the lender-tribe marriages are ruses designed to allow non-Native American companies to skirt consumer-lending laws. The tribes, they claim, are bei …"

"… oles or gaps it can exploit,” Jean Ann Fox of the Consumer Federation of America says.So good that the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wil …"

"… hat was forced to admit holding billions of dollars in covert accounts for Americans trying to avoid U.S. taxes.It is also a tactic used by big American bank …"

"… s for Americans trying to avoid U.S. taxes.It is also a tactic used by big American banks to solicit deposits from wealthy citizens in Third World countries, …"

"… evasion experts.Even as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service crusades against Americans using offshore banks to hide money, these tax experts say, the United St …"

"… tax shelters, says U.S. bankers “sell tax evasion to citizens of Central America, the Caribbean, all over Latin America.” The U.S. government hasn’t pu …"

"… he new POGO data gives the clearest picture yet of just how much corporate America relies on former SEC staff to handle its legal work before the agency.Sier …"

"… ealth insurance industry. Yesterday, Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) took aim at the health care advocacy gro …"

"… ce Plans (AHIP) took aim at the health care advocacy group Health Care for America Now (HCAN). HCAN took issue with AHIP’s assertion that the average profi …"

"… ou go again,” fashion. “Shocking,” he wrote. He said Health Care for America Now had “released yet another deceptive, ideologically based attack on h …"

"… t, low-margin industry. It’s time for them to get over the fact that the American people rejected the government-run plan and to start focusing on what’s …"

"… HITECH bill that emerged as part of the $787 billion stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009.Like m …"

"… ich Brennan, executive director of the Home Care Technology Association of America.The final bill did specify that the Department of Health and Human Service …"

"… o date from the health IT funding are taking a more moderate approach. The American Academy of Physician Assistants has expressed its concerns to HHS, and se …"

"… at adheres to government standards.The Home Care Technology Association of America has made the office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at HHS …"

"… r more was quick and predictable: “Not fair!”The PR and lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) absolved the industry of any responsibil …"

"… rage for an overly broad range of illnesses, and, of course, irresponsible American  citizens, especially healthy young people who decide not to buy ins …"

"… ghanistan. And they have cut deals with “good Taliban,” to the fury of Americans.For Islamabad, these Islamic alliances are strategic assets to keep at b …"

"… istani security analyst, out of three top Pakistani intelligence agencies, American officials consider the civilian Intelligence Bureau (I.B.) more trustwort …"

"… or Islamic militants.Diplomatic cables recently released by Wikileaks show American concerns over the ISI’s alleged links with terrorists. In one instance, …"

"… to compel current ISI Director General Shuja Pasha to resign so that a pro-American chief replaces him.A takeaway, perhaps, for Pakistan is that the Abbottab …"

"… lean Air Project, whose membership lists Koch and two of its subsidiaries (Georgia-Pacific and Invista) with a dozen industrial giants like ExxonMobil Corp., General …"

"… the [tax] credit for renewable electricity production” made from biomass.Georgia-Pacific, the company reported in 2008, was responsible for more than 10 percent of …"

"… n strategy, Koch Industries bought the giant wood and paper products firm, Georgia-Pacific, adding Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, Dixie cups and dozen …"

"… other sources. With 165 manufacturing facilities across the United States, Georgia-Pacific “has a significant interest in and will be significantly impacted,” by …"