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: Caveat EmptorPredatory lending made worse by Bush Administration
By Nick Slade
In case you missed it over Valentine’s Day, Elliot Spitzer, consumer rights hero, wrote a great J’accuse piece in the Washington Post . In the piece, Spitzer rightfully accuses the Bush Administration through the OCC of actually making the predatory lending problem worse by first trying to ignore the problem, then when the States Attorney Generals started taking action, Bush & Co. used the OCC to block the States from not only enforcing their own laws, but also from enforcing even federal laws.
Full post as published by Caveat Emptor on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).
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