Even if a State, like my home State of California, has passed a law setting a usury rate cap, this rule would allow lenders to ignore the law and to import high-rate, high-risk, and otherwise illegal loans back into the State.
Waters criticizes a proposed rule allowing predatory lending despite state laws.
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