LOCAL COLUMN: Touching the future

Story date: 2007-09-24 05:57:00
Added on: 2007-09-26 06:00:29

Meadville Tribune - But this is not a column about predatory lending and mortgage fraud. This is a column about education. You see, predatory lending thrived because consumers lacked the ability to think, to analyze and to discern. They lacked those abilities because ...


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