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loan shark
A loan shark is a person or body who offers loans at extremely high interest rates.〔"loan shark n. A person who lends money at extortionate interest rates, usually illegally." ''The Essential Law Dictionary'' Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Source books, Inc. By Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 (law.academic.ru )〕〔(Loansharking Law & Legal Definition ) USLegal.com〕 The term usually refers to illegal activity, but may also refer to predatory lending with extremely high interest rates such as payday or title loans.〔〔(Payday loans: legal loan-sharking or a better bet than the banks? ) The Telegraph, 7 December 2011〕〔(WALTHAMSTOW: MP shocked by 'legal loan shark' school involvement ) By Daniel Binns, The Guardian Tuesday 14 February 2012〕〔(Contemporary Financial Intermediation ) by Stuart I. Greenbaum and Anjan V. Thakor Academic Press 2007〕〔(When Payday Loans Go Wrong ) By Steve Perry, Pneuma Springs Publishing 2011〕〔(Loan Sharks: The Rise and Rise of Payday Lending ) By Carl Packman, Searching Finance 2012〕 Loan sharks sometimes enforce repayment by blackmail or threats of violence. Historically, many ''moneylenders'' skirted between legal and extra-legal activity. In the recent western world, loan sharks have been a feature of the criminal underworld.
==United States==
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