Category: Finance
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Window Tax- aka- Daylight Robbery
It was interesting to learn about the etymology of “Daylight Robbery”- it really prompted me to dig deeper. When William III was short of money, which he attempted to rectify by the introduction of the much-despised Window Tax. As the name suggests, this was a tax levied on the windows or window-like openings of a…
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How a Subprime Auto Lender Consumed Detroit With Debt and Turned Its Courthouse Into a Collections Agency
When more than 30% of your employees are debt collectors, you have to question – are you a lender or a collector. The following article came in Jalopnik – Read the original article here When Don Foss started his career as a car salesman, he recognized early on that most of his prospective customers had…