A usury law is essentially an interest rate law. For the most part, loan rates are controlled at the state level. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Usury laws set limits on the amount of interest lenders can charge on loans and are typically set at the state level. There ...

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A glitch in New York law forbids corporate entities from asserting affirmative claims for criminal usury. Thus, a corporate borrower who paid money on a predatory loan lacks legal recourse to ...

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One important reason why gender reform provokes outsized outrage—while violations of Islamic prohibitions on riba (interest or usury), elite corruption, or exploitative labour markets do not—is that ...

At the federal level, there are no usury laws limiting the amount of interest a credit card company can charge borrowers. However, the federal government protects consumers from unfair practices ...