Monthly Archives: November 2020
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Avoid the trap of high interest payday loans with these alternatives to debt
For the more than 12 million Americans who take out payday loans each year, the debt doesn’t end with their next paycheck. In fact, data from ... -
Interest on a typical Utah payday loan is 554% APR
Utah high-interest payday loan companies say pandemic is hurting their already struggling industry – where nearly one in three stores have closed in a four-year crisis ... -
Japan and Australia move toward military alliance with new training deal
Members of Japan’s Rapid Deployment Amphibious Brigade take part in Exercise Talisman Saber in Bowen, Australia on July 22, 2019. (Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes) TOKYO — ... -
Japan, Australia move closer to military alliance with new training agreement
Members of the Japan Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade participate in Exercise Talisman Saber in Bowen, Australia, July 22, 2019 (Seth Robson / Stars and Stripes) TOKYO ... -
Canberra mocked and threatened by Chinese propaganda, about the “Asian NATO” alliance
A Chinese newspaper belittled Australia and Japan as “American tools” in what is becoming an increasingly conflictual Indo-Pacific theater. “It is inevitable that China will take ... -
Is a military alliance between China and Russia possible?
Editor’s Note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor at the Belt and Road School at Peking Normal University ... -
Payday Loan Customers Will Only Get 1% Compensation From Defaulting Lender Sunny
Sunny became the last major payday lender to collapse in June following a wave of complaints about the mis-selling of short-term, high-cost loans. Most of the ... -
India signs BECA, sealing US-Indian military alliance
India finally signed the BECA (Basic Agreement for Exchange and Cooperation on Geospatial Cooperation) with the United States during the 2 + 2 meeting between the ... -
Vast Majority of Voters Approves 36% Cap on Payday Loan Rates | Regional government
Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved a measure setting an annualized percentage rate of 36% for payday loans. More than 4 in 5 voters supported Initiative 428, which ...