Why Payday Loans Cost 400% a Year - Explained Like You're Five

By Explaining Economics Like You're Five

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Ever driven past a neon "CASH NOW, NO CREDIT CHECK" sign and thought, huh, that seems like a nice little business? A fifteen-dollar fee — the price of a sandwich — somehow turns into an interest rate of four hundred percent a year. And the people charging it can look you dead in the eye and say "there's no interest rate here at all" without technically lying. In this one we rent a room from a very friendly man named Dale. You'll learn why paying by the night is always more expensive than paying by the month, how a 15% fee over two weeks becomes 391% over a year, why the lender's "nobody stays a year" defense is genuinely fair — right up until it isn't — and what actually goes wrong at checkout time. We also give the hotel its fair hearing: the costs are real, the fifteen minutes are real, and the trap isn't the price of the room. It's the rollover. 0:00 - The Neon Sign and the Sandwich 0:36 - Meet Dale and His Roadside Hotel 1:32 - $150 a Night Sounds Fine... Until You Multiply 2:33

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