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Maryland challenges online payday lender owned by tribal member

By Amy Biegelsen

Western Sky Financial’s website features a logo with three teepees and a toll-free number for customers to apply for an overnight loan. A no

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Broad reach of new consumer financial agency may fall short in some areas

By David Heath

Borrower Nightmares: $700 dormitory fee costs family its car

By Amy Biegelsen

Borrower Nightmares

By Julie Vorman

In trouble from an online payday loan? You might not have to repay it

By David Heath

As IRS crusades against Americans hiding money offshore, Latin American tax cheats flock to U.S. banks

By Michael Hudson

U.S. and its banks called "biggest tax haven" in world

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Revisiting 'The Cheating of America'

By Caitlin Ginley

Bankers, consumer groups clash over IRS plan to crack down on foreign tax cheats

By Michael Hudson

Senate committee finds most 'trapped' offshore income is already in U.S.

By John Aloysius Farrell

Bank-backed House lawmakers try to kill IRS plan to identify $1 trillion in foreign accounts

By Michael Hudson

Regulatory brawl over debit cards sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

By Amy Biegelsen

Lobbying brawl sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

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How much does it really cost to process debit card purchases?

By Julie Vorman

Visa, MasterCard in $6B settlement over card fees

By The Associated Press

Will new debit card fee controls revolutionize card industry?

Bankers take debit fee duel to friendly territory in House

By Julie Vorman

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ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance industry follows E.B. White's advice to be clearly obscure

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: 'Occupy Wall Street' should also take aim at health insurance companies

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: No silver lining in Gold Circle junkets for health insurance salesmen

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers fight rules to limit admin costs while spending lavishly on junkets for salesmen

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ANALYSIS: Putting our premiums into medical care, not profits

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Blue Cross, Blue Shield get richer by borrowing playbook of corporate insurers

By Wendell Potter

Analysis – Insurers’ cynical calculations on the cost of doing business

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurance exchanges tilted toward health insurers, not consumers

By Wendell Potter

GAO says at least 3,700 stimulus recipients are delinquent on taxes

By Laurel Adams

Stimulus recipients who got $24 billion owe $750 million in taxes

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FACT CHECK: GPS's bogus tax attack against Obama

By FactCheck.Org

IRS urged to crack down on sophisticated tax-evasion networks

By Laurel Adams

More corporations pay less in taxes

By The Center for Public Integrity

FACT CHECK: Obamas' tax rate not lower than the average teacher's

By FactCheck.Org

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Boiler rooms, foreclosure mills: The story of America’s mortgage industry

By Michael Hudson

The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits a

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Wells Fargo to pay $175M in lending settlement

By The Associated Press

Raging against the foreclosure machine

The Financial Meltdown: A Glossary

By Kat Aaron

The roots of the financial crisis: Who is to blame?

By John Dunbar and David Donald

Bank of America pays $108 million to settle latest case against troubled Countrywide unit

Struggling homeowners who were overbilled by two Countrywide Financial subsidiaries for services such as lawn care and home inspections at t

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You broke it? You fix it.

By John Dunbar

Leaders of the nation’s No. 1 subprime lender charged by the SEC

By Kat Aaron

Countrywide loan underwriter found herself in ‘dangerous territory’

By Michael Hudson

Predatory lending: A decade of warnings

By Kat Aaron

How much does it really cost to process debit card purchases?

By Julie Vorman

How much goes for processing?

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Regulatory brawl over debit cards sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

By Amy Biegelsen

Banks squeeze bigger debit fee out of Fed

By Amy Biegelsen

Bankers take debit fee duel to friendly territory in House

By Julie Vorman

Will new debit card fee controls revolutionize card industry?

Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

By Cezary Podkul

Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

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Education Department pulls student debt collectors guide off website

By Ariel Wittenberg

Need financial advice? Feds have 50 different financial literacy programs

By Laurel Adams

Payday lenders agree to stop 'deceptive and illegal' practices

By David Heath

Race car driver Scott Tucker drew an elaborate facade around his payday loan businesses

By David Heath

Excerpts from this story referencing "Loan":

"… s college, directs students to an ad for the “Grove City College Student Loan.'' The ad, which resides on PNC Financial Services Group's website, promin …"

"… Just below the greeting, PNC discloses: “The Grove City College Student Loan is not being offered or made by Grove City, but by PNC Bank, National Asso …"

"… lobbyist and general counsel for the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, which represents lenders, Loan servicers, collection agencies, a …"

"… ons for the lender,” Winfield Crigler, executive director of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance, said in an e-mail obtained through a Freedom of Inform …"

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