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Borrower Nightmares

To mark the July 21 launch of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a new regulator with broad powers, iWatch News is publishing stories about borrower nightmares: Americans from different walks of life who borrowed money with terms they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford. The stories build on our Debt Deception? investigation, begun in February, of […]

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