Sentences with phrase «into loan shark»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Barbara Corcoran, known to many as a star on ABC's hit show Shark tank, parlayed a $ 1,000 loan into a five - billion - dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $ 66 million.

He said it was vital that recent changes to the Social Fund do not push families into the clutches of «legal loan sharks... as they have nowhere to turn to in their hour of need».

«This wicked bedroom tax is going to rip neighbour from neighbour, force vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks, and end up costing Britain more than it saves as tenants are forced to go homeless or move into the expensive private rented sector,» shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said.

«This hated tax is trapping thousands of families, forcing vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks, and there is now a serious danger it could end up costing Britain more than it saves as tenants are forced to go homeless or move into the expensive private rented sector.

Unite: MP's bid to tackle loan sharks must not be the last word: time for national inquiry into payday lending

Critics compared the legal - financing industry to mob loan - sharking and modern - day slavery during a hearing Wednesday into the controversial practice of paying plaintiffs cash in advance against potential lawsuit settlements.

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.

The owner of a popular barbershop considers selling the place to a loan shark who wants to convert it into a strip club.

Nicola sets up a plan that seems doomed from the start — she tricks Guy into giving her tens of thousands of pounds so that she can save Keith from loan sharks.

But when Jill learns the Harmons are moving and taking her only friend with them — she kidnaps Laila kick - starting an outlandish cat - and - mouse adventure as the Harmons enlist a slick P.I., take off in hot pursuit through the desert of New Mexico, pop into a love commune, confront a gun - wielding loan shark and conquer their fear of parenthood all in this madcap adventure!

After falling into debt with a Korean mobster (Alvin Lee), and then borrowing money from nefarious loan shark Neville Baraka (Michael K. Williams) that he promptly loses on the blackjack table while trying to win back what he owes, Jim is given seven days to pay or else.

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.

He finds himself selling it to a local loan shark, and after learning his idea to change it into a gentlemen's club and seeing the community that has formed because of the establishment, he realizes the error of his ways.

Avoid credit card debt: How can an emergency fund help you avoid getting into the worst type of debt there is outside of a loan shark?

The Misadventures of Tron Bonne takes place before the events of Mega Man Legends, and turns comical antagonist Tron Bonne into the protagonist, as she tries to raise enough money to save her brothers from a loan shark.