How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions

[anon55609254]

@anon62122146

This sounds like the kind of academic misconduct that should pierce tenure and get you drummed out of the field.

As long as the university can keep their 60% overhead

[Neovison.vison]

@anon21100188

The surprise in revelations like this is usually not that folks like Priestley can be bought, but how incredibly cheaply people like Priestley can be bought. $30k!

$30K goes a long way in Kennesaw, Georgia.

[anon61221983]

Not as far as it used to, given the number of people moving up from the city into the NW corridor…

[simonize]

To be fair, payday lending is kind of like carrying a balance on one’s credit card: Which is turn, it best thought of as a new loan every month (they can raise the rate if they choose) rather than an installment loan.

[gatto]

@knoxblox

I wonder how I avoided drinking the Kool-Aid

art is a hell of a drug.

[FGD135]

@knoxblox

I wonder how I avoided drinking the Kool-Aid.

You’re a happy mutant!