Social lending gains net interest

Pouring your cash into the far reaches of the world wide web may sound like a crazy idea.

But now there is a wave of sites trying to convince people that the web is the place for their money.

The concept is called social lending and the idea is to introduce people who need money to people who want to lend some - cutting out the middlemen like banks and mortgage companies. Full Story »

Posted by Ari Hakkarainen

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Jami Dwyer
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by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

I'd like more discussion of how often Kiva loans in particular go toward their intended task. Stories about Kiva almost always discuss one really nice success story, which is great, but... that's it. Nothing about the guy who drank it away, or even the guy who tried to make it work but it just didn't.

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