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The Rant | Free market forces, sure

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Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine wrote this week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the payday-loan industry is “an obvious consequence of free market forces responding to consumer demand.”

AFP editor Chris Graham points out other examples of free-market forces responding to consumer demand that are just as harmful as payday lenders in the course of shedding light on the hows and whys of the watered-down payday-lending reform effort in Virginia.

  

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Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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