Last year I decided to invest some of my money into a social lending network that goes by the name of Prosper. This investment has turned out to be quite a lot of hard work to track, but it has made me about 9% earnings on my capital investment. Although this is much more than I would receive at my bank I have decided that, following a new Review of Prosper Loans that I have read, I am no longer going to invest my money into social lending.
Although the review was fairly positive about the Prosper company itself it recommended that people be very careful about their investments into social lending in general. They explained that they were very concerned about the economic outlook in the United States that because of this many other people who were taking out loans from social lending networks such as Prosper may find themselves in the unfortunate position of not being able to pay back their loans due to becoming unemployed.