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The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives
Title:
The unbanking of America : how the new middle class survives
Publication Date as Range:
2017
ISBN:
9780544602311
Physical Description:
xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
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 -- Borrowing and saving under the radar -- Inside the innovators -- Rejecting the new normal.
Abstract:
"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?
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