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Auto Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on auto lending, showing how lenders steer vulnerable buyers into subprime loans and crushing debt. It uses comedy sketches to explain the practices.
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Cited for subprime auto loan statistics and as a reference for predatory car financing, rather than as a recommendation.
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John Oliver had a segment on subprime lending back in August: [VIDEO] According to the video, there was a 31.45% default rate in 2015.
Read original comment ↗This is true (John Oliver covered in depth at [VIDEO] ), but has nothing to do with the $35K 6+-year loans on new cars.
Read original comment ↗This is basically the cellphone version of a GPS-enabled, LTE-connected ignition system connected tracking device in a car purchased from an American "buy here, pay here" used car lot. [VIDEO] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗It's nothing compared to the despicable ways "car dealerships" (really finance scams) steal from poor people. [VIDEO] Or how the National Association of Mortgage Financers or whatever it's called defaulted in their mortgage. Or how companies declare bankruptcy. Default is a part of finance. Good faith bankruptcy is not ethically challenged. Both parties to a contract are responsible for counterparty risk.
Read original comment ↗And they aren't buying new cars. They are more often buying junk used cars with predatory financing contracts ( [VIDEO] ) Parent poster was just spreading Fox "News" propaganda.
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