[willio58]

> But the corollary, which the article doesn't really acknowledge, is that reforms like credit card interest caps and the Credit Card Competition Act would substantially limit consumer access to credit.

That's a good point, and of course there are downstream affects of this, but I wonder if that's a bad thing. We're not talking about reduction in ability to access say mortgage debt or something of that nature, we're talking credit card debt. Making it possible for a person to be in $10k, $20k, $40k+ in extremely high interest credit card debt doesn't seem like a positive for our economy overall to me. It really just masks the root of the problem, which is that people are working paycheck to paycheck and can't afford the occasional emergency.

[fragmede]

What is this hypothetical tens of thousands of credit card debt made up of though? Yeah, some of it is going to be unnecessary luxuries, but some of it is going to be essentials like baby formula and groceries. Limiting how high the interest rate can be can only be a good thing. Usury is considered a crime in-and-of-itself in other countries.