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Ohiogal

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Sat Feb 3, 2018, 11:54 AM Feb 2018

Another example of the "new normal"

In mid-April, hundreds of members of the payday lending industry will head to Florida for their annual retreat featuring golf and networking at a plush resort just outside Miami. The resort just happens to be the Trump National Doral Golf Club.

It will cap a year in which the industry has gone from villain to victor, the result of a concentrated lobbying campaign that has culminated in the Trump administration’s loosening regulatory grip on payday lenders and a far friendlier approach by the industry’s nemesis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/us/politics/payday-lenders-lobbying-regulations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

*This would have been a scandal in itself in years past! But it's now become the "new normal" in the Dotard administration.

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