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The Community Reinvestment Act: Questionable Premises And Perverse Incentives, Vincent D. Rougeau, Keith N. Hylton Dec 1998

The Community Reinvestment Act: Questionable Premises And Perverse Incentives, Vincent D. Rougeau, Keith N. Hylton

Vincent D. Rougeau

Having just passed the twentieth anniversary of the enactment of the Community Reinvestment Act ("CRA" or "Act"), this is an appropriate time to take stock of the effectiveness of the legislation and to consider whether it continues to be useful as a tool for addressing the problems of neighborhood decline and discrimination in the lending market. Although discrimination in lending and the decline of certain inner-city neighborhoods is a problem that the CRA has not been able to solve, most observers would agree that the situation has improved since the mid-1970s. In particular, there has been notable progress toward the …


Rediscovering Usury: An Argument For Legal Controls On Credit Card Interest Rates., Vincent D. Rougeau Dec 1995

Rediscovering Usury: An Argument For Legal Controls On Credit Card Interest Rates., Vincent D. Rougeau

Vincent D. Rougeau

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