Abacus illustrates the importance of informal and flexible lending practices to bringing the unbanked and under banked members of racial and ethnic minorities into the formal market for financial services and credit. Did this focus help or harm their case? Why or why not?

Helping the unbanked and under banked  members would help them to Harm Their Case

Explanation:

Reasons for the same can be :-

1. Loss - As abacus would be so flexible in its lending it would incur losses in the long run.

2. Misuse- Racial and ethnic minorities would slowly start misusing thelending practices leading to manipulation of the same.

3. Image Deterioration - Abacus would have a false image for there customers

4. Partiality- No Rationalism would be shown to other employees which would lead to loosing loyal customers.

answer///supply is elastic, and demand is inelastic;

of the three mortgage options that demarco and tanya have to choose from, the balloon payment mortgage would be their best option, over adjustable payment and fixed payment plans.ultimately, the balloon payment plan would save demarco and tanya overall, in interest, would cost less monthly, and they would only have to make these payments for 8 years, opposing to 30 years for adjustable or fixed payment plans. 

overall, demarco and tanya would save $80,811 if they chose balloon payments over fixed payments, and would save $116,711 if they choose balloon payments over adjustable payments. benefits with choosing fixed payments over adjustable payments is that, in the end, the payments will still be $836.30 a month, while with adjustable payments, the initial monthly payments will be $763.38 to $1082.70 a month, ultimately leading to a more costly purchase. benefits with choosing fixed payments over balloon payments are not present. benefits in choosing adjustable payments over is that it has a lower interest rate, and starts with lower monthly payments initially. benefits in choosing adjustable payments over balloon payments include a lower interest rate, and lower initial monthly payments. benefits in choosing balloon payments over fixed payments include lower interest rates, lower overall price, lower monthly payments, takes less time to pay off, and does not require a downpayment. benefits in choosing balloon payments over adjustable payments include, lower monthly payments (when averaged), takes less time to pay off, and lower overall price.

hence, option c, balloon payments, is the best option for demarco and tanya to make this purchase, for it will save them a minimum of $80811, and a maximum of $116,711.