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Payday Lending: Does Regulation Depend on Which Party Holds Power?
When a borrower receives a so-called “payday loan,” he or she writes a check that is postdated to t
he next payday or signs over permission for the lender to make an electronic withdrawal of the amount borrowed, plus fees, on that day.
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Comments_on_the_Department_of_the_Treasury_TREAS_Notice.pdf
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Department
of the Treasury regarding expanding access to credit through online marketplace lending.
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Testimony: What’s in it for the United States? On the Constitutionality and Legitimacy of the Financial Stability Board (and International Financial Regulation)
Written Testimony of
Chris Brummer, J.D., Ph.D.
Senate Banking Committee
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language
Language matters.
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Weighing Solutions to Obesity
This report, an overview of studies on prevention and intervention, serves as a valuable resou
rce for anyone interested in programs for obesity reduction and weight loss.
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How Drug Trafficking Is Fueling the Opioid Crisis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are now entering the "third wave"
of the nation's opioid crisis, which involves staggering trends related to fentanyl and the global drug-trafficking trade.
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Undercapitalization: Closing the Gender Growth Gap Across Industries
Despite mounting evidence of the returns on investing in women-led ventures, only 2.2 percent of t
he $85 billion invested in 2017 went to all-women teams, and less than 10 percent of all venture-capital deals go to women, people of color, and LGBTQ foun
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Toward a Healthier Future
Conventional wisdom often suggests that a nation's health is a byproduct of its wealth.
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Can America Afford to Retire?
America's pension shortfall for defined benefit plans alone is estimated to be as high as $7.5 tri
llion across government and corporate pensions. And the outlook for the alternative of defined contribution plans is equally dire.
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The Hedge-Fund Shakeout
With more than $3 trillion in assets—and the freedom to invest opportunistically worldwide—hedge f
unds have become one of the most important market-moving forces of the last few decades.
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Outsmarting Superbugs: What Are the Alternatives?
The challenges in developing new antibiotics have left us vulnerable to growing antimicrobial resi
stance. The lack of investment and slow movement in the development pipeline mean no replacements for ineffective antibiotics as drug resistance spreads.
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The Age of Private Equity and Credit
Private capital markets have become a favored alternative source of company financing. In fact, th
e US now counts more firms owned by private equity investors than are listed on all US stock exchanges, and private credit has seen similar growth.
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