See: Usury Laws.
You'd think credit card companies would be guilty of usuary. They charge something like 2% fees on late cards, i.e. if you carry forward into next month an unpaid balance. And you'd think, "Well, 2.5% isn't all that bad, especially in the modern era, where The Fed is loaning money at less than that, and mortgages commonly go for under 4%." But then you read the fine print, and you realize that it's 2.5% per month. Or some 30% (compounding an issue as well) per year.
Rates that high, you'd think, would be so high that they're illegal (that's what usury is)...but they're not. You'd imagine Visa and Mastercard and the others having a few lawyers sitting around opining on this issue. The usury rate must be even higher. Maybe 40%?
Yeah, oof. Just pay your bills. Or don't buy the earrings.
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Finance allah shmoop what is the fare debt collection practices
act fair debt collection That doesn't sound like a euphemism
for the guys with the baseball bats who knocked gently
on your door and talk with you quietly about your
poker losses there Well that whole goodfellas thing became such
a problem that the feds had to get involved in
established rules as to how far those guys with the
baseball bats could go and they came up with the
following a they can't use them the baseball bats to
hit your knee caps anyway if you don't pay your
bills be they have to listen to your pushback on
like a safe space is literally safe Space is not
like the kind of uc berkeley so they can't call
you at work and castle you thereabout bills if you
tell them not to and see they can't call you
at home in the middle of the night or bang
on your door at two a m and wake the
kids and terrify you about your bills that you owe
you owe well basically this act which became law in
nineteen seventy seven established the notion that even if you
really are a total deadbeat somebody who was stupid enough
to loan you money like you don't pay your bills
you promised to pay them and you just don't you
don't pam back You don't care about your honor self
respect you're a deadbeat but the feds took the perspective
that wealth Somebody was stupid enoughto loan you that money
in the first place and they can on li yu's
quote fair means unquote to collect the money you promised
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