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A Tale Of Three Markets: The Law And Economics Of Predatory Lending
A Tale Of Three Markets: The Law And Economics Of Predatory Lending
Patricia A. McCoy
Predatory lending - the practice of making exploitative high-cost loans to naive borrowers - has spurred policy-makers, activists, lenders and scholars to debate whether intervention is warranted and, if so, what type of intervention is appropriate. The solution requires understanding the incentives in the home mortgage market that have fueled predatory lending. Recent changes in the credit market have created new possibilities for lenders to profit by exploiting information asymmetries to the detriment of unsophisticated borrowers. As a result, a new, predatory lending market has emerged alongside the legitimate prime and subprime home mortgage markets. Neither market forces nor existing …
That Which We Call A Domain By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet: The Overbroad Protection Of Trademark Law As It Applies To Domain Names On The Internet, Neil Batavia
South Carolina Law Review
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