Sentences with phrase «by loan sharks»

It's a common misconception that short - term unsecured personal loans are only offered by loan sharks or other distributable entities and can never be paid in full.

In June, Beijing banned online loans to college after a public outcry over students falling victim to aggressive debt recovery tactics — including requiring nude photos as collateral — practiced by loan sharks.

Not exact matches

As veteran Japan watcher Richard Werner (author of Princes of the Yen) recently described the situation to me, «while Japanese small firms were killed by the continued refusal of banks to expand credit (and many a small firm president was killed by having to sell a kidney to the loan sharks he was forced to resort to), foreign speculators received ample yen funds for a pittance.»

The way Americans continue to pay for these items is by going into loan shark levels of debt.

They seem intent on ignoring the excellent work done by the End Legal Loan Sharking Campaign and the Better Banking Campaign on this subject too.

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

It calls for a clampdown on loan sharks and for more competition in the home credit market, in which the Competition Commission estimates people are overcharged by # 100 million a year.

This needs to happen before more New Yorkers are exploited by these legal loan sharks and become victims — again.

Though wealthy from the money that he has culled via loan - sharking, Geremia is a thoroughly miserable wretch, driven into the throes of destruction by his own incredible selfishness and his obsessive infatuation with a beautiful local girl, Rosalba (Laura Chiatta), whom he meets when asked to assist with her wedding.

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

Pieta (Unrated) Korean tale of redemption about a loan shark (Jeong - jin Lee) forced to reconsider his line of work by a mysterious woman who claims to be his long - lost mother (Min - soo Jo).

2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard - like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

When Blackjack addict Jim Bennett (played by Mark Wahlberg) goes all in, which he does every time, it's more proof that he is «the kind of guy that likes to lose»... a description offered by one of the mobsters and loan sharks who lend him money.

The second half of the film (really the last quarter of the four hours) finds Joe fully embracing the darker side of the world, stoked on by L (Willem Dafoe), a sort of loan shark to the extreme, by taking her in as one of his enforcers.

Jason Statham (War, Crank) stars as Terry Leather, a two - bit car salesman who is being harassed constantly by thugs sent by the local loan shark for payment.

By chance, Craig has just run into an old high school pal, Vince (Ethan Embry), who works as a collector for a loan shark and is more than ready to cut corners — among other things — en route to a big score.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists, Inherent Vice is part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

It's a comedy about «a struggling nightclub owner who after amassing a large debt from a loan shark, sets out to win a long - running celebrity death pool by attempting to kill Hasselhoff.»

Given seven days to come up with $ 260,000, Jim half - heartedly seeks the help of yet another low - life loan shark (John Goodman), but doesn't seem to mind very much whether he lives or dies - until he falls in love with one of his students, a beautiful young writer played by Brie Larson.

The new film by oft - controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki - Duk is a melodrama about a brutal collector for a loan shark and his odd relationship with his mother.

Bumping a customer to a higher interest rates for a few mistakes takes the debt into loan shark realms, easily avoided by finding credit card debt relief.

Ascertain whether a lender is a loan shark by investigating his license and by checking the rate of interest he is demanding.

Because most people who use loan sharks don't have the money to have the paperwork reviewed by a competent attorney, borrowers have little help in understanding the contracts they sign.

Enticed by the thrill of online football betting and casinos, the sales manager, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang, borrowed from multiple registered moneylenders to feed his gambling habit as well as to cover debts with moneylenders and even loan sharks.

«Payday lending by any lender — including banks — is an abusive form of loan sharking, rooted in trapping borrowers in unaffordable, high - interest rate loans,» Scott Astrada, federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending, said in a statement.

Drug Wars is a browser based remake of the classic 1984 of the same name, that sees you buying and trading drugs, paying off your loan shark and avoiding capture by the police as you attempt to make as much... Read More

The coffee blend includes beans that Carmichael is obtaining from Haitian sources that, he says, sidestep predatory loan sharks and middlemen who have hampered the climb out of poverty by Haitian coffee growers.

Most residential leases and most zoning statutes in places zoned residential would not prohibit the use of a premises as a home office used only by the resident and an occasional visitor (assuming that the business activity was not itself illegal like drug dealing, money laundering, loan sharking, prostitution or pimping, etc.).