Bad paper: chasing debt from Wall Street to the underworld
Author:
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Pub. Date:
2014.
Edition:
1st Edition.
Language:
English
Description
"A trip to the underworld of debt collection, where bankers team up with ex-burglars and few rules apply Bad Paper is a riveting expose;, a moving story of an unlikely friendship, and a gritty narrative of how scrappy entrepreneurs profit from our debts. Jake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of "paper"--the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, the world of consumer debt collection is a wild and unregulated shadowland, where operators may misrepresent a debtor's situation, make illegal threats, and even lay claim to debts that are not theirs to collect in the first place. It is a realm of indelible individuals who possess a swagger and vocabulary that even David Mamet could not invent. Halpern follows his collectors as they intimidate competitors with weapons, manage high-pressure call centers, and scheme new ways to benefit from American's debt-industrial complex. He alsoexplores the history of collection agencies and reveals the human cost of a system that leaves hardworking Americans with little opportunity to retire their debts in a reasonable way. The result is a bravura work of storytelling that is also an importantconsciousness-raiser"--
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ISBN:
9780374108236
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subject_facet | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General Collecting of accounts Collection agencies Consumer credit Finance, Personal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General Collecting of accounts Collection agencies Consumer credit Finance, Personal |