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The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.

The unbanking of America : how the new middle class sur...

The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.

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The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.

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Full title

The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]

Call Numbers

G 2017/678

Record Identifier

74VKV7m2wAJy

MMS ID

991024063859802626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

We're all underbanked -- Where everybody knows your name -- Bankonomics, or How banking changed and most of us lost out -- The new middle class -- The credit trap : "bad debt" and real life -- Payday loans : making the best of poor options -- Living in the minus : the millennial perspective -- Borro...

Publication information

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

[2017]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.

"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student have in common? All three are victims of our dysfunctional...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives / Lisa Servon.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-240) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2017

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2017/678

Record Identifier

74VKV7m2wAJy

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV7m2wAJy

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9780544602311 (hardcover)

0544602315 (hardcover)

DDC

332.10973

MMS ID

991024063859802626

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