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Loan shark

Someone who issues loans with interest rates above the maximum legal level, often thought to come with threats from the lessor. Loan sharks typically are associated with organized crime, but this is becoming more rare with the emergence of regulated methods that accompany high-risk loans such as subprime and payday lender. See: Usury

Loan Shark

A person who makes illegal loans, usually by charging an extraordinarily high interest rate. For example, a loan shark may lend $1,000 at a 2,000% annualized interest rate, which is illegal in most states. Loan sharks are not financial institutions; they often "collateralize" their loans with threats of violence. Loan sharking often is associated with organized crime. See also: Usury.

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Proposals were formulated to clip the wings of banks, clothing and furniture stores, the recently proliferating microlenders, and even mashonisas (loansharks), (2) while offering debt counselling to the victims of these lenders.

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(28.) Tanzi notes: "When civil servants appropriate, for their own use, the instruments that the government has at its disposal to influence the economy and to correct the shortcomings of the private market, they reduce the power of the state and its ability to play its intended, and presumably corrective, role." Tanzi, supra note 19, at 26; see also Manash Ranjan Gupta & Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Formal Credit, Corruption and the Informal Credit Market in Agriculture: A Theoretical Analysis, 64 ECONOMICA 331 (1997) (connecting the bribe rate for farmers to receive loans from public officials to the informal interest rates set by loansharks).