Economics
America’s Middle Class Is Addicted to a New Kind of Credit
- Online installment loans have taken subprime market by storm
- It’s not a payday advance, but critics see same pitfalls
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The payday-loan business was in decline. Regulators were circling, storefronts were vanishing and investors were abandoning the industry’s biggest companies en masse.