Flawed Illinois Poll Generates Worthless Conclusions
Activist group the Woodstock Institute recently released a “survey” of 600 people. It looks to be designed to mislead those Illinois policymakers concerned about the increasingly obvious and damaging consequences of a new Illinois [...]
Number of Unbanked Fell in 2021 (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recently released its 2021 Annual Survey of unbanked and underbanked households. The survey shows an estimated 4.5% of U.S. households (approximately 5.9 million) were “unbanked” in 2021, meaning [...]
Inventing Loan Categories Makes for Damaging Policies
A recent study released by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is the latest in a long series apparently aimed at eliminating non-bank credit in our nation. This one is different to those that [...]