Gov. Gray Davis of California has signed into law a bill to curb outsize interest rates that car dealers sometimes charge minority customers. The new statute, say consumer groups that follow the issue, is the nation's first to take aim at discriminatory lending that can result from a practice known as the dealer markup. In a dealer markup, car dealers raise interest rates above the rates they are
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