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Wonga Might Be Uniquely Unscrupulous, But the Whole Commercial Banking System is Out to Get Us
With infamous payday lender Wonga on the brink of collapse, Grace Blakeley argues the company's business model may seem uniquely exploitative but its practices are merely an extreme version of a more general trend.