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Of Usury, from Brant's Stultifera Navis (Ship of Fools), 1494; woodcut attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Usury (/ ˈ j uː ʒ ər i /) [1] [2] is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an ...
A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high or illegal interest rates, has strict terms of collection, and generally operates outside the law, often using the threat of violence or other illegal, aggressive, and extortionate actions when seeking to enforce the satisfaction of the debt. [1]
Vigorish (also known as juice, under-juice, the cut, the take, the margin, the house edge or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager. In American English, it can also refer to the interest owed a loanshark in consideration for credit.
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It usually involves granting a loan in order to put the borrower in a position that one can gain advantage over them; subprime mortgage-lending [8] and payday-lending [9] are two examples, where the moneylender is not authorized or regulated, the lender could be considered a loan shark. Usury is a different form of abuse, where the lender ...
Candy isn't always bad for you – this teen created a dentist-approved lollipop that's changing the way we think of sweets and rotting our teeth. Meet the teen who invented lollipops that are ...
Scott Tucker (born May 5, 1962) is an American convicted racketeer, loan shark, fraudster, and money launderer who used his illegal funds to finance – and drive for – his own sports car endurance racing team.