On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. But since his inauguration, the federal agency that regulates banks has abandoned its support for a state law designed to reduce credit card interest rates, which now average 24 percent and cost American consumers $120 billion every year.
Trump’s Gift To Loan Sharks
Trump promised caps on credit card rates — but his regulators are helping banks kill state initiatives to impose those caps.

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