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Ben Kaufman

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YouTube celebrity Mr. Beast owns a fintech app targeting kids with EWA loans, risky stock trading, and other goodies.

That and more in This Week In Debt from @borrowerjustice.bsky.social! indebt.substack.com/p/this-week-...

02.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Industry is advocating against states protecting consumers. But industry advocates are . . . bad at advocacy. indebt.substack.com/p/this-week-...

That & more in This Week In Debt from @borrowerjustice.bsky.social!

23.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A monopolistic private equity company has caused a crisis of typefaces at the CFPB. Here's the story: indebt.substack.com/p/this-week-...?

That and much more in this week's edition of This Week In Debt from @borrowerjustice.bsky.social!

16.02.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What at time to be a loan shark. For @borrowerjustice.bsky.social, I discuss how business is booming at Dave, how the CFPB just got even worse for consumers, & more! indebt.substack.com/p/this-week-...

Featuring:
@alanasemuels.bsky.social
@carterd.bsky.social

And more!

09.02.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone from Fox to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social sees that Rent Now, Pay Later loans are a predatory debt trap. Check out the @borrowerjustice.bsky.social investigation that blew the lid on these loans here: protectborrowers.org/rent-now-pay...

06.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The WHITE HOUSE website reads
Democrat Shutdown is Imminent
With a clock displaying 05:32:29 but the numbers look fuzzy because they are improperly scaled

The WHITE HOUSE website reads Democrat Shutdown is Imminent With a clock displaying 05:32:29 but the numbers look fuzzy because they are improperly scaled

The DOGE vibe coders can’t even scale a clock to a screen www.whitehouse.gov/government-s...

30.09.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

2U is walking away from its bootcamps, which its own data showed had no effect on students' careers.

Of course, those students will not be able to walk away from the massive loans they took on to attend 2U's bootcamps.

05.12.2024 20:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0