Over time I have spotted an abundance of pay day and fast loan type businesses popping up. Usually they exist in areas where there is a larger money economy. Regularly in parts of the city where folks do not have regular banking balances speak little English and do not trust banks, or where less than economically savvy folks hang their hats. They would not do very well with an ordinary checking account because quite overtly they can't balance a check book. Whose mess up is this, is there someone to blame? Why has this locale flourished while the regular banking sector taken such a success in this last industrial recession. Yes, let's chat about all this if we would.
Many years back, I had an acquaintance who started a payday loan business and a pawn shop. I used to tease him and call him a loan-shark. He strongly defended his establishment as just, truthful, and claimed free-market standing. He said he didn't hold a gun to anyone's head to bring in their private items or take out expensive customer loans, they did it by choice and I for one who loves freedom, freedom and choice should respect this. Yes, I understand that debate. Still, when you see too many of these sorts of firms in town, well, you know; there goes the area as they say.
I have always noted that they attract the wrong element. But perhaps that is because that type of resident may struggle to use the normal banking system, for who knows what reason. Perhaps, prior personal decisions they've made, who knows, nonetheless, my findings do hold true. In neighborhoods with a sufficiency of spirits stores, one-dollar stores, tattoo shops, and bars, we mostly see the proverbial pay-day loan multinational in a strip center nearby, often more than one. Yes, it's got to be a good business model, even with the bullet evidence glass and regularly less-than-desirable standing in line or loitering out front.
Then again as my past acquaintance asserts; who the hell am I to judge? In wealthier suburbs you do not see a large amount of pay-day loan enterprises really, sure there are a few , but in the inside city or poorer neighborhoods you see them in each sizeable shopping mall and near areas with lots of low hire residences. There are other issues with all this, you see many people go to cash checks in these varieties of places, and the company takes a large charge for doing so , sure there's risk involved for them, but their financial model allows for that as well. Folk not paying taxes, working under the table, getting occasional checks - money those checks at these places.
It appears we have a issue with client credit these days. Credit Card firms make lots of money off those with large perpetual balances and impose interest rates which are madly high. Banks can't charge that much for their loans, as they seem to be controlled, but somehow these firms can thanks to their lobbying power. The same thing is true for pay day loans, that's the same ballpark I'd put them into. Let's be honest poor folks make poor choices, often they do not have many choices, but choosing to use a multinational like one of those is another stupid call on top of whatever decisions led these people to this personal economic reality of theirs.
The WSJ has done numerous articles over the years of the way in which the money economy exists, the way in which the IRS is trying to cut down on it, and how payday loan companies and pawn shops have sprung up to meet the free-market wishes of those people who are playing in a basal kingdom of our economy. The growth of both the cash economy and these sorts of enterprises has truly grown over time.
Additionally,despite what my acquaintance has to say about all this, I don't find that a positive development. It just continues economic enslavement, high rates on short-term borrowing, and increased criminal activity and minor tax evasion issues. So , yesterday, when sitting at Starbucks overhearing a conversation, someone said; "I need a payday loan quick," I thought to myself; "no he does not" that is merely a poor short lived commercial call, which is maybe a bit of a habit of his, and why he's still poor. Please consider all this and think on it.
Many years back, I had an acquaintance who started a payday loan business and a pawn shop. I used to tease him and call him a loan-shark. He strongly defended his establishment as just, truthful, and claimed free-market standing. He said he didn't hold a gun to anyone's head to bring in their private items or take out expensive customer loans, they did it by choice and I for one who loves freedom, freedom and choice should respect this. Yes, I understand that debate. Still, when you see too many of these sorts of firms in town, well, you know; there goes the area as they say.
I have always noted that they attract the wrong element. But perhaps that is because that type of resident may struggle to use the normal banking system, for who knows what reason. Perhaps, prior personal decisions they've made, who knows, nonetheless, my findings do hold true. In neighborhoods with a sufficiency of spirits stores, one-dollar stores, tattoo shops, and bars, we mostly see the proverbial pay-day loan multinational in a strip center nearby, often more than one. Yes, it's got to be a good business model, even with the bullet evidence glass and regularly less-than-desirable standing in line or loitering out front.
Then again as my past acquaintance asserts; who the hell am I to judge? In wealthier suburbs you do not see a large amount of pay-day loan enterprises really, sure there are a few , but in the inside city or poorer neighborhoods you see them in each sizeable shopping mall and near areas with lots of low hire residences. There are other issues with all this, you see many people go to cash checks in these varieties of places, and the company takes a large charge for doing so , sure there's risk involved for them, but their financial model allows for that as well. Folk not paying taxes, working under the table, getting occasional checks - money those checks at these places.
It appears we have a issue with client credit these days. Credit Card firms make lots of money off those with large perpetual balances and impose interest rates which are madly high. Banks can't charge that much for their loans, as they seem to be controlled, but somehow these firms can thanks to their lobbying power. The same thing is true for pay day loans, that's the same ballpark I'd put them into. Let's be honest poor folks make poor choices, often they do not have many choices, but choosing to use a multinational like one of those is another stupid call on top of whatever decisions led these people to this personal economic reality of theirs.
The WSJ has done numerous articles over the years of the way in which the money economy exists, the way in which the IRS is trying to cut down on it, and how payday loan companies and pawn shops have sprung up to meet the free-market wishes of those people who are playing in a basal kingdom of our economy. The growth of both the cash economy and these sorts of enterprises has truly grown over time.
Additionally,despite what my acquaintance has to say about all this, I don't find that a positive development. It just continues economic enslavement, high rates on short-term borrowing, and increased criminal activity and minor tax evasion issues. So , yesterday, when sitting at Starbucks overhearing a conversation, someone said; "I need a payday loan quick," I thought to myself; "no he does not" that is merely a poor short lived commercial call, which is maybe a bit of a habit of his, and why he's still poor. Please consider all this and think on it.
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