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To: balch3

Cost of doing business with deadbeats alert.

Company's that lend at 20% interest to over-extended people take big risk of default. That's why they charge 20%.

I don't really feel sorry for such lenders, really.

They're big boys and knew exactly what they were doing, and they make plenty of money doing it.


4 posted on 01/11/2006 8:14:34 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: MeanWestTexan

AMEN!!!!

The new BR bill stinketh to high heaven.

parsy, who smelt it years ago.


5 posted on 01/11/2006 8:17:53 AM PST by parsifal
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To: MeanWestTexan

I guess the word usury doesn't mean anything.


7 posted on 01/11/2006 8:27:28 AM PST by PokeyJoe (What exactly is lime jello?)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I did a study of antebellum South Carolina private lenders for whom I could find books, and looked at the "deadbeat" list---they not only kept #s and $s, but had comments like, "refuses to pay," "can't be counted on," "skipped town," and so on---and found that the default rate was about 60% among smaller borrowers, 12% among larger borrowers.


8 posted on 01/11/2006 9:03:59 AM PST by LS
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