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1 Deceptive Tactics of Credit Card Companies By: Aaron J. Byrd Table of Contents I. Introduction …............................................................................................................................1 II. The Problem: Deceptive Tactics of Credit Card Companies ...…………………………....2 III. The Initial Solution: The Credit CARD Act of 2009 ….......................................................3 IV. Drawbacks to the Credit CARD Act of 2009 ……………………………………………....5 V. The Proposed Solution: Amend the Credit CARD Act of 2009 …………………...............6 VI. Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………8 I. Introduction midtown madness 2 downloads For decades, American consumers have relied on the availability and accessibility of credit and debit cards to purchase consumer products and services on the assumption that they were fully and fairly aware of the consequences of their purchases. 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A common objection to the moral hazard explanation of the financial crisis is the following: Bankers did not explicitly factor in the possibility of being bailed out. In fact, they genuinely believed payless rent a car that their firms could not possibly collapse under any circumstances. payless rent a car For example, Megan McArdle says : I went to business school with these people, and talked to them when they were at the banks, and the operating assumption was not that they could always get the government to bail them out if something went wrong.  The operating assumption was that they had gotten a whole lot smarter, and would not require a bailout. And Jeffrey Friedman has this to say about the actions of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the managers of the Bear Stearns fund whose collapse was the canary in the coal mine for the crisis payless rent a car : These are not the words, nor were Tannin and Cioffi's payless rent a car actions the behavior, of people who had deliberately taken what they knew to be excessive risks. If Tannin and Cioffi were guilty of anything, payless rent a car it was the mistake of believing the triple-A ratings.
This objection errs in assuming that the moral hazard problem requires an explicit intention on the part of economic agents to take on more risk and maximise the free lunch available courtesy of the taxpayer. The essential idea which I outlined at the end of this post is as follows: The current regime of explicit and implicit bank creditor protection and regulatory capital requirements means that a highly levered balance sheet invested in safe assets with severely negatively skewed payoffs is the optimal strategy payless rent a car to maximise the moral hazard free lunch. Reaching this optimum does not require explicit intentionality on the part of economic actors. The same may be achieved via a Hayekian spontaneous order of agents reacting to local incentives or even more generally through natural selection payless rent a car -like mechanisms.
Let us analyse the natural selection argument a little further. If we assume that there is a sufficient diversity of balance-sheet payless rent a car strategies being followed by various bank CEOs , those CEOs who follow the above-mentioned strategy payless rent a car of high leverage and assets with severely negatively skewed payoffs will be selected by their shareholders over other competing CEOs . As I have explained in more detail in this post , the cheap leverage afforded payless rent a car by the creditor guarantee means that this strategy payless rent a car can be levered up to achieve extremely high rates of return. Even better, the assets will most likely payless rent a car not suffer any loss in the extended stable period before payless rent a car a financial crisis. The principal, in this case the bank shareholder, will most likely mistake the returns to be genuine alpha rather than the severe blowup risk trade it truly represents. The same analysis applies to all levels of the principal-agent relationship in banks where an asymmetric payless rent a car information problem payless rent a car exists.
But this argument still leaves one empirical question unanswered given that such a free lunch is on offer, why don t we see more examples of active and intentional exploitation of the moral hazard subsidy? In other words, why do most bankers seem to be true believers like Tannin and Cioffi. To answer this question, we need to take the natural selection analogy a little further. In the evolutionary race between true believers and knowing deceivers, who wins? The work of Robert Trivers on the evolutionary biology of self-deception tells us that the true believer payless rent a car has a significant advantage in this contest.
Trivers work is well summarised by Ramachandran : According to Trivers, there are many occasions when a person needs to deceive someone else. Unfortunately, it is difficult payless rent a car to do this convincingly since one usually gives the lie away through subtle cues, such as facial expressions and tone of voice. Trivers proposed, therefore, that maybe the best way to lie to others is to first lie to yourself. Self-deception, according to Trivers, may have evolved specifically for this purpose, i.e. you lie to yourself in order to enable you to more effectively deceive others. Or as Conor Oberst put it more succinctly here : I am the first one I deceive. If I can make myself believe, the rest is easy. Trivers work is not as relevant for the true believers as it is for the knowing deceivers. It shows that active deception is an extremely hard task to pull off especially when attempted in competition with a true believer who is operating with the same strategy as the deceiver.
Between a CEO who is consciously trying to maximise the free lunch and a CEO who genuinely believes that a highly levered balance sheet of safe assets is the best strategy, who is likely to be more convincing to his shareholders and regulator? Bob Trivers work shows that it is the latter. Bankers who drink their own Kool -Aid are more likely to convince their bosses, shareholders or regulators that there is nothing to worry about. Given a sufficiently strong selective mechanism such as the principal-agent relationship, it is inevitable that such bankers would end up being the norm rather than the exception. The real deviation from the moral hazard explanation would be if it were any other way!
There is another question which although payless rent a car not necessary for the above analysis to hold is still intriguing: How and why do people transform into true believers? Of course we can assume a purely selective environment where a small population of true believers merely outcompete the rest. But we can do better. There is ample evidence from many fields of study that we tend to cling onto our beliefs even in the face of contradictory pieces of information. Only after the anomalous information crosses a significant threshold do we revise our beliefs. For a neurological explanation of this phenomenon, the aforementioned paper by V.S. Ramachandran analyses how and why patients with right hemisphere strokes vehemently deny their paralysis with the aid of numerous self-deceiving defence payless rent a car mechanisms.
Jeffrey Friedman s analysis of how Cioffi and Tannin clung to their beliefs in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary until the threshold was cleared and they finally threw in the towel is a perfect example of this phenomenon. payless rent a car In Ramachandran s words, At any given moment payless rent a car in our waking lives, our brains are flooded with a bewildering variety of sensory inputs, all of which have to be incorporated into a coherent perspective based on what stored memories already tell us is true about ourselves and the world. In order to act, the brain must have some way of selecting from this superabundance of detail and ordering it into a consistent belief system , a story that makes sense of the available evidence. When something doesn t quite fit the script, however, you very rarely tear up the entire story and start from scratch. payless rent a car What you do, instead, is to deny or confabulate in order to make the information fit the big picture. Far from being maladaptive, such everyday defense mechanisms keep the brain from being hounded into directionless indecision by the combinational explosion of possible stories that might be written from the material available to the senses. payless rent a car However, once a threshold payless rent a car is passed, the brain finds a way to revise the model completely. Ramachandran s analysis also provides a neurological explanation for Thomas Kuhn s phases of science where the normal period is overturned once anomalies accumulate beyond a threshold. It also provides further backing for the thesis that we follow simple rules and heuristics in the face of significant uncertainty which I discussed here .
The selection argument provides the rationale for how the the extraction of the moral hazard subsidy can be maximised despite the lack of any active deception on the part of economic agents. Therefore, as I have asserted before , we need to fix the system rather than blaming the individuals. This does not mean that we should not pursue payless rent a car those guilty of fraud. But merely pursuing instances of fraud without fixing the incentive system payless rent a car in place will get us nowhere.
payless rent a car Thanks David I hadn t heard that acronym either! But it does ring true. Shifting potential losses into the future is a popular strategy for many agents, not least politicians Greece probably being the best example.
Thanks Michael your idea in the linked post of better disclosure mitigating the principal-agent problem is valid. At the very least, we need to enforce strict mark-to-market payless rent a car in as many cases as we can a point I have argued in an earlier post.
Moreover, claiming Ramachandran provides a neurological explanation for Kuhnian payless rent a car paradigm shifts is over the edge. In the first place, I spent about three years of my life studying those issues, payless rent a car coming to the conclusion that, on the whole, the less said about Kuhnian payless rent a car paradigm shifts the better. More directly, Ramachandran s work would lead one to believe that after a certain point scientists payless rent a car should shift paradigms. In fact, as Kuhn documents, what happens is that the new paradigm wins when believers in the old one die off. It s the young, who have less invested in the old way, who make the shift. See Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist.
I should add that I agree with your main point; several lines of argument show that the assumption of deliberate exploitation of the value of the implicit government guarantee is not necessary to explain that guarantee s role in the mess.
You re right. I thought of mentioning Ramachandran s critique of Trivers but decided against it because I wasn t leaning on a strict interpretation of Trivers conclusion. As Ramachandran mentions, self-deception has maladaptive consequences. But its not clear to me that the true believer banker is engaging in true self-deception given that he benefits in the short run. As I see it, the conclusion is more relevant for the knowing deceiver who has an uphill payless rent a car task competing with a true believer.
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I have been married for a little over a year now. I first met my husband through church a few years prior to our marriage. After dating for almost 2 years he proposed. At that time, we were already going to premarital counseling to determine where we wanted to take this relationship. I had found out that he was lying to his former boss and manipulating her into giving him money. He had told her that he was raising his son (my son) alone, didn't have a job and asked her for money to pay his electric bill (which at the time I was paying). all inclusive family cruises All of which was a lie.He even sent her a picture of my son as collateral. This was after she already given him over $50k loan to pay off debt. He had been doing this for nearly a year before I found out! I was a single parent who worked very hard to support my children, all inclusive family cruises so to use us in that way felt like betrayal. I was ready to be done. But I agreed to continue the counseling with our pastor, he apologized and said he would stop his manipulation and begin repaying his boss. I eventually forgave him and we married months later. Afterward I was helping him with sorting through some debt documents and saw a court case granting him a divorce. I had already known that he had been married before, but this was not the wife I knew about. I find out that he had been married THREE times before me! I was devestated, both at the number of prior marriages and his deception. We were only a few months married at this point so of course, again with the constant apologies & forgiveness.
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I rarely write this advice, but here it is: divorce him immediately and never mind any reconcilliation attempts, since they are all con jobs as well. Get yourself, and your kids, away from him. I suggest you use what you know to restrict him to supervised visitation. Psychopaths should not be left with children. You may need a restraining order.
Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news. However, the good news is that a really good man is out there for you. After I divorced my wife I met my current wife, who is so kind and loving, and never does any of the crazy things my ex did. Yep, I'm happy. Just wish I had divorced her sooner.
Yes, you have a moral obligation to tell the people he is deceiving, especially those he is taking money from. However charming psychopaths seem, it's important to warn everyone they come in contact with, at church, too, of the facts. But most of all, protect yourself and your family.
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They didn t notice damage of that magnitude when he returned it ? ? ? They have to get in to park it, and it would have been obvious. Your conclusion, Holmes. It did not happen, Watson. They should be denunciado-ed for attempt deception.
I rented a car from goldcar for a weekend. On the internet the price was 30 euros but after fuel and additional driver, insurance it was 190 euros. discount walt disney world tickets I could not claim the half tank of fuel back that was charged at a high rate. This year I am going to run a car of my own in Spain and insure it there. I am always in fear of claims etc and if you pay for additional insurance it is very expensive so what is the point in being ripped off. I now hire from Europcar or Hertz if required. They may sound expensive at the start but they do not have all these con tricks such as all the others I have tried.
We usually rent 3-4 times a year when visiting our place in Andalucia, usually from the cheapest on the net. Always a scam going on somewhere, if not for exhorbitant full fuel tank prices, then for damage when returned. Amparo: I ve personal experience of rental staff refusing to check the car with me upon pick up ( If you don t like it, give me the keys back and rent from someone else. ), and also refusing to check the car when it is returned ( Don t worry, the insurance will cover any damage. ). We ve also been double dipped when a rental was hit by another driver who accepted full responsibility, and the agency collected from the insurers AS WELL AS keeping our deposit! And then the internet broker accepting no responsibility for withheld funds, saying that they will investigate but that these things can take a while (18 months later still waiting). Having your VISA number and a contract where you accept all liability discount walt disney world tickets whatever the cause is simply a licence to steal, as my bills clearly show. Spanish, German, English, they re all Car Rental Crooks .
The Olive Press are doing a good job here. As they have reported I also lost my deposit from Brian s Rent a Car. From my own investigation you can find similar stories on the Internet, for example on the Malaga Web Forum and also on the Trip Advisor site.
I d like to congratulate Mr Evans for his courage and tenacity in taking this action. discount walt disney world tickets It s time for David Ballard to realise that his scam is over. Rod Wigley said it best David Ballard should go back to the place he came from . I ll second that!
**dyemiller**. If the adage you get what you pay for does not apply to the car rental sector, then it would appear there is a brilliant business opportunity here for someone with a little capital and a sense of professionalism. And then the cowboys would sit up and take notice. I find it difficult to believe no-one fits the bill at the airport.
Whenever I visit the UK I always use Europcar and they don t get their hands on my credit card until I have the status report and they don t get their keys back until I have the return status report. And they have never quibbled.
Since this article was published I have seen statements from the company (Briansrentacar)co-owner Claiming that David Ballard did not make Comments to James Bryce that the people who have made representations to the company to dispute their version of Events are all LIARS.
Comments discount walt disney world tickets on Tripadvisor and Malagaweb show several problems with this company, However I now feel this answers those on the site as to who has been telling the truth and who has been telling porkies as one commented!
Rod signed a 12 month contract, discount walt disney world tickets payment discount walt disney world tickets 1st day of each month. then on the second month 2 hours after he was due to pay he informed us he could not pay and wanted to return the car without any notice and in breach the contract he signed.
He changes his story every year. Johnson dumped our car in the Gap garage discount walt disney world tickets in Arroyo on his way to hire another car at the airport. When the car was returned to our garage he was contacted to come inspect the damage on the car which he refused. He was sent photos of the damage and invoices which he ignored.
My company rented a car for me in Spain continuously for 6 years, I needed to change the car every month and renew the contract. We used all the major companies depending on which one was cheapest at any given time. You could say I know a thing or two about renting discount walt disney world tickets in Spain.
In reply to Ballard s comment about my initial contract. The truth is that I signed an initial 3 month contract which expired on at the end of March 2012. ( I still have this paper work.) I paid in full to the end of March 2012. I never signed a twelve month contract.I never recieved another contact, so no contract existed. I simply told him I wanted to return the car a month later. He really is a complete liar as we all know. Having paid the March rental and been given a receipt for it, he had the nerve to ask for it again.His records reflect how bad the business is.
No ,he has instead committed fraud by signing a declaration with his credit discount walt disney world tickets card company that he did not sign the slip, receive any service or have any dispute regarding the service and now he brags on the internet he has claimed his money back from his credit card company illegally-
does this not show what type of person he really is. We are waiting for the court proceedings he has promised discount walt disney world tickets so that we can prove our case before discount walt disney world tickets a judge showing the contract Evans signed with no drivers chair broken.
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The short answer is, "Because it avoids a lot of hassle and potentially avoids paying twice for the same coverage." And it's one area where I do not always agree with the conventional wisdom of consumerist travel writers.
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As far as I know, only a very few MasterCard and Visa cards offer primary insurance as standard, and I know of no issuing banks that offer a conversion option such as AmEx does. So if you use Discover , MasterCard or Visa, you either have to roll the bones with the risks of relying on secondary coverage or paying the outrageous price for CDW.
Fortunately, when you rent in Europe, you don't have to worry about your card's primary/secondary distinction. Because your own auto insurance almost certainly doesn't cover you outside the U.S. and Canada, all coverage in other countries is de facto primary.
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Most trip-cancellation policies limit refunds to "covered" reasons typically medical, plus a few additional circumstances. However, whether your reason is covered or not can sometimes lead to protracted arguments. For this reason, I recommend that if you buy trip-cancellation, you should buy an "any reason" policy, which avoids any arguments.
Secondary limitations also apply to other travel insurance components baggage loss or damage, delay expenses, and such. You can claim only what you can't first recover from the airline/cruise line involved or from your own personal property insurance. That's why I recommend against buying all those minor coverage, unless they come as part of the least expensive meaning of hotel california lyrics policy you can find that covers your basic medical and cancellation needs.
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