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Dirty Debts Sold Dirt Cheap, Dalie Jimenez
Dirty Debts Sold Dirt Cheap, Dalie Jimenez
Dalie Jimenez
More than 77 million Americans have a debt in collections. Many of these debts will be sold to debt buyers for pennies, or fractions of pennies, on the dollar. This Article details the perilous path that debts travel as they move through the collection ecosystem. Using a unique dataset of 84 consumer debt purchase and sale agreement, it examines the manner in which debts are sold, oftentimes as simple data on a spreadsheet, devoid of any documentary evidence. It finds that in many contracts, sellers disclaim all warranties about the underlying debts sold or the information transferred. Sellers also sometimes …
The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, And Next Steps
The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, And Next Steps
Patricia A. McCoy
In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy tell the full story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.
Federal Preemption, Regulatory Failure And The Race To The Bottom In Us Mortgage Lending Standards
Federal Preemption, Regulatory Failure And The Race To The Bottom In Us Mortgage Lending Standards
Patricia A. McCoy
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