I never understood why the anti-business crowd gloats when payday loan stores get shut down, people lose their jobs and a financial option is ended.

From Walletpop’s series on payday lending: 

“Nineteen million Americans use payday loan services a year, with more than 100 million transactions done a year,” says Steven Schlein, the spokesman of the Community of Financial Services Association of America, or CFSA, which is a national organization that (according to its website) promotes “responsible regulation of the payday advance industry and consumer protections.” Schlein says, “There’s obviously a giant demand for our services. If anybody wants to compete with us and come up with something better, God bless them, but let us compete with that.”

Walletpop is looking at bank fees.

From our friends at Walletpop:

I thought I was lucky when I found a crumpled and forgotten $1 bill in my jeans pocket this week. But not quite as lucky as Gordon Carnese, who discovered a lotto ticket worth $2.6 million in his car’s glove box.

The key to winning the lottery is to play…but to play is stupid because the odds are so astronomically against you.   Quite a conundrum.

A Massachusetts town is printing its own money. Read about it on Walletpop.

But this Walletpop story, tells us that credit limits being slashed is pretty scary, too.

Yes, everyone is discounting these days.   See the latest at Walletpop.

US Airways is going back to the future.    Not booze, but soft drinks are again free.  Read about it on Walletpop.

Take the Presidents Day currency quiz at Walletpop.

Net worth of average American drops 20%.