Arkansas’s border-hopping borrowers

The Arkansas constitution caps allowable interest rates for lending at 17 percent. Is the effect more to protect consumers, or deprive them of desired choices? A study [Ben Lukongo and Thomas W. Miller Jr., Mercatus]


Arkansas’s border-hopping borrowers curated from Overlawyered

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