Alina Selyukh

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82 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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And Joshua Esnart was one of those people.

And at some point, he brought up this fact that since tariffs have started costing small business owners a ton of money—

They've been barraged by these never-ending text messages and voicemails of people offering them cash fast.

It's like, hey, you're probably struggling to pay your tariff.

How about $100,000 tomorrow?

And as soon as he brought up these pitches, the room just kind of erupted.

All these small business owners were like, oh, my gosh.

No one talks about this.

This is like insane.

Every day we're getting these pitches day, hour after hour, multiple times a day.

So who are the pitches coming from?

Many of them come from this industry called merchant cash advances.

Merchant cash advances are not loans.

They're kind of their own thing.

But some experts compare them to like

payday loans, except for businesses.

They offer extreme amounts of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, very fast, in exchange for a cut of sales.

It's an unregulated, very shadowy world of financiers.

And

You could get a merchant cash advance from Amazon affiliated or Amazon backed provider, or it could be like a Wall Street firm.

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