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Unlocking credit

December 31, 2008 | industry | Comments (1)

That’s the key to the future of the economy according to this story in yesterday’s New York Times:

“Credit, the disposition of one man to trust another, is singularly varying,” Walter Bagehot, the financial journalist, wrote 135 years ago.

Payday lending customers pay back 95% of their loans when due.  That’s a credit system that seems to be working.