TY - BOOK AU - Halpern,Jake TI - Bad paper: chasing debt from Wall Street to the underworld SN - 9780374108236 (hbk.) AV - HG179 .H247 2014 U1 - 332.70973 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Finance, Personal KW - Consumer credit KW - Collecting of accounts KW - Collection agencies KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - "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"-- UR - http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/236/9780374108236/image/lgcover.9780374108236.jpg ER -