Delinquent: Inside Americas Debt Machine Botella Elena
Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and EconomicsA consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the…
Specifikacia Delinquent: Inside Americas Debt Machine Botella Elena
Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and EconomicsA consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the cycle.Delinquent takes readers on a journey from Capital One's headquarters to street corners in Detroit, kitchen tables in Sacramento, and other places where debt affects people's everyday lives. Uncovering the true costs of consumer credit to American families in addition to the benefits, investigative journalist Elena Botella--formerly an industry insider who helped set credit policy at Capital One--reveals the underhanded and often predatory ways that banks induce American borrowers into debt they can't pay back.Combining Botella's insights from the banking industry, quantitative data, and research findings as well as personal stories from interviews