{"id":317,"date":"2006-02-16T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-02-16T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:07:24","slug":"prospercom-an-ebay-for-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/317","title":{"rendered":"Prosper.com: an EBay for lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  I hope <a href='http:\/\/www.prosper.com'>Prosper.com<\/a> takes off.  I think it will depend on the ability of the groups to enforce repayment and keep delinquencies down.<\/p>\n<p>For more on microcredit, which is essentially what Prosper.com is, check out <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microcredit'>Wikipedia<\/a> and this article by The Economist on <a href='http:\/\/www.humanitarianinfo.org\/sumatra\/reliefrecovery\/livelihood\/docs\/doc\/TheEconomist-ArticleonMicrocreditandDisasters-171205.pdf'>Microcredit and Disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what banks think of this?  Via <a href='http:\/\/www.mnot.net\/blog\/'>mnot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I hope Prosper.com takes off. I think it will depend on the ability of the groups to enforce repayment and keep delinquencies down. For more on microcredit, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}