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Bad paper

chasing debt from Wall Street to the underworld

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An edition of Bad paper (2014)

Bad paper

chasing debt from Wall Street to the underworld

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"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 also explores 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 important consciousness-raiser"--

"Frequent New Yorker contributor Jake Halpern investigates the shadowy, unregulated world of consumer debt collection, focusing on an unlikely friendship between a former banking executive and former armed robber who go in search of "paper," spreadsheets of uncollected debt sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar"--

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240

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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
2014, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
Oct 14, 2014, Dreamscape Media
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Table of Contents

Stolen numbers. The $14 million gamble ; The king of crap ; The package ; Bad paper
Paper numbers. Aaron's problem ; Brandon's people ; Scoring in Vegas
The last collections. Taking control of assets ; The white man's dope ; Georgia.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237).

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Dewey Decimal Class
332.70973
Library of Congress
HG179 .H247 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
240 pages
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27170397M
Internet Archive
badpaperchasingd0000halp
ISBN 10
0374108234
ISBN 13
9780374108236
LCCN
2014013576
OCLC/WorldCat
869438121
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