Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Debt for Sale
Brett Williams · 2004
73/100
👍 Worth It
Brett Williams brings an anthropologist's eye to the credit industry's shift from serving the middle class to profiting from their default, and the combination of personal testimony and historical analysis is more readable than most academic press books on this subject. Published before the 2008 crash, it looks prescient now. A strong choice for anyone trying to understand how predatory lending became normalized.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety78
Substance / usefulness75
Craft & writing73
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy81
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit68
👁 Human-eye gut-check73
Penny’s verdict73
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