Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders Audiobook (Free)

Foreclosures are striking record highs; Us citizens are declaring personal bankruptcy at rates ten occasions that during the Great Depressive disorder; more college students drop out because of debts than because of poor grades; reviews of debtor suicides proliferate in the mass media. Quite simply, it’s an enjoyable experience to be in the bank business.

Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that’s sometimes hysterical and frequently horrifying: from Las Vegas to the Bible Belt, through the backwoods to inner towns where in fact the world’s about Maxed Out: CRISIS, Easy Credit as well as the Period of Predatory Lenders largest monetary giants troll for their next victims. Welcome to a nation populated by debt pirates, commercial predators, human being credit card billboards, debt evangelists, mega-million money spec homes, and, of course, trillions of dollars of easy credit. Combining startling information with a lot more startling examinations of individuals, institutions, the government, and modern religion, James Scurlock exposes extremely real, potentially devastating systems and plans that are drowning an incredible number of Americans within a flood of easy credit.

Growing on his award-winning documentary from the same name, hailed as ‘scathing’ and ‘unusually engaging’ by Newsweek and Range, Maxed Out confirms that Scurlock can be an author ‘as fiendishly clever as the banks and credit card issuers he goes after’ (Barbara Ehrenreich, bestselling writer of Nickel and Dimed).