Halpern, Jake,

Bad paper : chasing debt from Wall Street to the underworld / Jake Halpern. - 1st Edition. - 240 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

"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"--

9780374108236 (hbk.) 0374108234 (hbk.)

2014013576


Finance, Personal.
Consumer credit.
Collecting of accounts.
Collection agencies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General.
Collecting of accounts.
Collection agencies.
Consumer credit.
Finance, Personal.

HG179 / .H247 2014

332.70973