# Business ideas........ **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 18, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/business-ideas/32552 "2007-07-18T08:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/business-ideas/32552/30 "2007-07-18T10:07:55Z")
> **[Loan shark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_shark)** > > A loan shark is a person or body who offers loans at extremely high interest rates usually without holding relevant authorization from the local financial regulator (illegally). The term usually refers to illegal activity, but may also refer to predatory lending with extremely high interest rates such as payday or title loans.\[page needed\]\[page needed\] Unfortunately, an unintended consequence of poverty alleviation initiatives can be that loan sharks borrow from formal microfinance lenders and le... > **[Racket (crime)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering)** > > A racket is a planned or organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal or extorted money regularly or briefly but repeatedly. A racket is often a repeated or continuous criminal operation. Originally and often still specifically, a racket was a criminal act in which the perpetrator or perpetrators offer a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a nonexistent problem, a service that will not be put into effect, or a service that woul... > **[Procuring (prostitution)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp)** > > Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, colloquially called a pimp (if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the prostitute may engage clients. Like prostitution, the legality of Ex... --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/business-ideas/32552)._