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Much like a truancy law, which protects teenagers from themselves, the government passed the Truth In Lending Act. This act includes consumer protections when they take out a loan. The creditor must disclose things to the borrower like the interest rate, fees, and the grace period for missed payments. Sleazy lenders might sell the unaware borrower a loan with a 50% interest rate, or a huge fee if the monthly payment is late. These are the details consumers should consider if they want to protect themselves.
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Finance: What is an Unsolicited Order?3 Views
finance a la shmoop what is an unsolicited order
alright well people it's just an order like to buy or sell a stock or bond or [Definition of unsolicited orders]
derivative security that you instruct your broker to execute all on your
lonesome that is the broker or another professional did not recommend you doing [Guy stood in front of Walmart]
that trade you did research on your own consulted alpha magazine and The Motley [The magazine on a disk]
Fool noted the massive number of Spinney fidgets things that were selling off the
shelves the last time you visited Walmart and decided to make an investing
statement based on that observation and in placing an unsolicited order you are
legally on your own if things fail ie the broker is exempt from any liability [Exempt from liability stamp]
for having made an incorrect or improper recommendation or whatever in real life
brokers have so many layers of legal coverage above their recommendations [A wedding cake]
that no it really doesn't matter if they sell you 20 bad stocks in a row you just
have to be appropriate for what you checked on the boxes in the form that [Investment criteria checklist]
you sent to them that well they're still likely immune to prosecution anyway yeah
no recourse or well your only recourse is to just fire them and hire this guy [Bonzo the chimp appears]
to pick stocks for yes yeah asking yourself well really how much worse
could he do had your broker been the one to stumble on the many sold out signs of
spinny things at Walmart and then she called you to suggest you buy shares of [Broker calling a client]
spinny fidget time-wasters.com well then the order would have been
considered a solicited one and in theory solicited orders carry a higher weight [Exempt from liability stamp is wiped away]
of scrutiny should something go awry and regulators get involved and basically it
revolves around that recommendation being appropriate to the risk levels and
duration levels and other levels of investing prowess that you proffer that
you actually have and yeah those regulators they mean business you really [Regulator holding a baseball bat]
don't want to be on their bad side
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