Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld with Jake Halpern

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published January 4, 2016 at 3:51 PM EST

01/04/16 - The holidays are over—perhaps the credit cards are full. Have you ever been stuck in the web of debt collection?

Agents have their job to do--but the experience can be harrowing. Once well into arrears, debt is purchased by a contractor—usually for pennies on the dollar—and persistently pursued. We’ll learn how it all works—including the sordid side—with Jake Halpern, author of BAD PAPER: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld. That’s Topical Currents. . . Monday at 1pm.

Video from C-SPAN, MAY 30, 2014 Book Discussion on Bad Paper:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?319870-4/book-discussion-bad-paper

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Joseph Cooper

WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives

Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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