The lawmakers have proposed capping interest rates on consumer loans at 15%, but doing so may hurt some of the people it's aiming to protect.
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Visiting Fellow at the School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor Emeritus, Economics & Finance, University of Houston-Clear Lake
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
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Senior Academic in the Department of Service Sector Management, Sheffield Hallam University
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Colleen P. Kirk is a Friend of The Conversation.
Assistant Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
