"Trick and Trap", "Ghetto Taxes" as Hidden Fees

"Trick and Trap", "Ghetto Taxes" as Hidden Fees

Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks here with Devin Fergus (@devin_fergus), the Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies, at the University of Missouri, about his new book, '"Land of the Fee: The Decline of the Middle Class and the Making of the New World Financial Order". "Consumer financial fees have helped to choke off dreams of the middle class and middle class aspirants alike," argues Fergus (History and Black Studies/Univ. of Missouri; Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980, 2009, etc.). In particular, Fergus investigates several common financial transactions that he contends involve hidden or excessive fees so egregious that they are damaging the economic well-being of Americans, including subprime mortgages, student loans, and payday lending. The damage these forms of borrowing have done to American households during and after the Great Recession is already well-known. Fergus traces in detail the discouraging story of congressional inaction by both political parties that has permitted lenders to sidestep usury laws as they burden unsophisticated borrowers with excessive interest and charges like origination fees and prepayment penalties.

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The Black Panthers Context From Mary Williams, Jane Fonda's Daughter

The Black Panthers Context From Mary Williams, Jane Fonda's Daughter

If you watched Sunday evening's 2021 Oscars and learned of British actor, Daniel Kaluya's, stunning and accolade-winning performance and have not gone on to watch 'Judas And The Black Messiah', maybe ...

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As President Biden Prepares To Declare The Armenian Massacre A "Genocide"

As President Biden Prepares To Declare The Armenian Massacre A "Genocide"

President Joe Biden is to declare the massacre of an estimated million or more Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a "genocide", risking a potential fracture with Turkey but fulfilling a campaign pledg...

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Vermont's Dinah Yessne, Successful But Unknown, Always Politically Defined

Vermont's Dinah Yessne, Successful But Unknown, Always Politically Defined

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU with Dinah Yessne. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Yessne's parents were active in the Progressive movement of the 1940s and 50s, earning them the en...

15 Huhti 202139min

Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Get the 'Wealth Hoarders' To Pay For the Biden Infrastructure Bill

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, www.kgnu.org) for #ItsTheEconomy with Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. There, he dir...

8 Huhti 202127min

Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with @ErikJClarke about the implications for Denver, Colorado and the nation from President Biden's new infrastructure plan to fulfill his campaign promise to "...

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No More Growth At Any Price, How To Build Back Better w Rob Dietz

No More Growth At Any Price, How To Build Back Better w Rob Dietz

If COVID19 has shown us anything at all, it must be that growth at any price is not an option going forward. 'Build Back Better' is an opportunity to ensure that growth is of the most productive and v...

25 Maalis 202131min

The COVID Relief Bill Will Help Greatly But Will Food Banks Still Be Busy?

The COVID Relief Bill Will Help Greatly But Will Food Banks Still Be Busy?

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for #ItsTheEconomy @KGNU with Sheen Kadi of #Metro Caring Denver. As Colorado's leading frontline anti-hunger organization, Metro Caring works with the communit...

5 Maalis 202133min

Racist Attacks on Asian Americans in Denver and Beyond

Racist Attacks on Asian Americans in Denver and Beyond

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with Fran Campbell, President of the Asian Chamber of Commerce in Colorado The last 6 months have been an unprecedented challenge to th...

4 Maalis 202125min

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