Posts Tagged ‘AFFIL’
Angry Consumers Flood Federal Reserve Board with Complaints
Press release from Americans for Fairness in Lending. Full release after the jump (it is not yet up on AFFIL’s website, so I cannot link to it).
AFFIL’s Jim Campen and Sarah Byrnes join Caveat Emptor
I am pleased to welcome Jim Campen and Sarah Byrnes from Americans for Fairness in Lending to Caveat Emptor. Sarah will be posting weekly, and Jim will chime in from time to time, as well.
AFFIL stands for the proposition that maybe the lending industry could use a little regulation, after all (hey, Judge Posner thinks [...]
New consumer blog: We Are the 90 Percent
Sarah Byrnes at Americans for Fairness in Lending just e-mailed me a link to We Are the 90 Percent, “a punk rock academic pursuit.” Usually I wait for newer blogs to show some maturity, but a consumer blog that mentions punk rock and contains a poem for everyone’s favorite bankruptcy law professor, Elizabeth Warren is [...]
AFFIL’s holiday season credit tips
Americans for Fairness in Lending just released a tip sheet for holiday shoppers. The holidays are huge for retailers, which means they can be catastrophic for consumers.
My number one tip: set a budget for holiday spending and stick to it. If you can do that, you won’t have to worry about credit at all.
It’s December, [...]
