Equifax Report Gives Incomplete Picture of Troubling Subprime Auto Lending Practices
Equifax, the consumer credit reporting agency, recently released a report that it said refutes evidence pointing to a growing "bubble" in the subprime auto lending market based on the fact that credit scores were higher for people with subprime auto loans than for people who do not have an auto loan, ignoring the significant concerns raised by recent Center for Responsible Lending research. Equifax attempts to do so in two ways: Equifax argues that any problems in the market are overstated by looking at one data point: lender charge-off rates, and Equifax uses carefully chosen data points to