” When you make lending to high-risk people less attractive, the result is not worse terms for low-risk people who have been profitable all along.  The result is that high-risk people get less credit.  They used to be able to get credit despite their credit-unworthiness by paying extra; if the law forbids this, why lend to them?” — Bryan Caplan, professor of economics on the Real Unintended Consequences of New Credit Card Regulations