<p>NEW: A 700% APR Lending Business Tied to Dr. Phil’s Son Is Dividing an <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#Alaska</a> Tribe</p><p>Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/money/" rel="tag">#Money</a> <a href="/tags/banks/" rel="tag">#Banks</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#Finance</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/minto-money-dr-phil-son-payday-lending-alaska" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/minto-money-dr-phil-son-payday-lending-alaska"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/min</span><span class="invisible">to-money-dr-phil-son-payday-lending-alaska</span></a></p>
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<p>How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans<br>—</p><p>Online scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pig</span><span class="invisible">-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/scam/" rel="tag">#Scam</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/banks/" rel="tag">#Banks</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> <a href="/tags/cybercrime/" rel="tag">#Cybercrime</a> <a href="/tags/moneylaundering/" rel="tag">#MoneyLaundering</a></p>
<p>Trump Wants to Crack Down on “Debanking,” but He’s Dismantling a Regulator That Was Doing Just That<br>---</p><p>An executive order seeking to stop banks from discriminating against customers could be undermined by the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been investigating the practice.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/banks/" rel="tag">#Banks</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
<p>"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct <a href="/tags/emissions/" rel="tag">#Emissions</a> generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year” </p><p><a href="/tags/banks/" rel="tag">#Banks</a> are a core part of how we store and spend money. This <a href="/tags/money/" rel="tag">#Money</a> can be invested in <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> which negatively impacts the <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> aka <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a>. In this <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#Blog</a> post I explained my journey switching banks and how you can to.</p><p><a href="https://primonatura.co.uk/why-i-changed-banks-for-the-planet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="primonatura.co.uk/why-i-changed-banks-for-the-planet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">primonatura.co.uk/why-i-change</span><span class="invisible">d-banks-for-the-planet/</span></a></p>