Showing posts with label pay day loans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pay day loans. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2012

Interest Rate For The "Rest Of US": 400%

When your local friendly Too-Big-To-Fail bank needs a 'helping hand' loan to get through pay-day or buy some extra S&P futures, it picks up the shiny red phone and asks Ben for unlimited access to free money. When the 'rest of us' need a little extra - to get through the next week before our pay-check hits, we call this guy - who charges a 400% APR. The Central Bank Discount Window - Priceless.

What is perhaps most notable that no matter how much the CNBC anchors tried to corner this gentleman into admitting his vig is a little rich, the bottom line is that his services are in demand, and by a customer that has a far higher annual household income that we would have expected... once again the 'middle-class' is hurting to maintain any standard of living.