Land of the fee
Subtitle: hidden costs and the decline of the American middle class
By: Devin Fergus
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780199970162
Subjects: Personal Loans; Consumer credit; Predatory lending; Middle class
Description: "Debt stands between millions of Americans and their dreams: owning a home, paying off a car, going to college, and finding a good job. Land of the Fee exposes the hidden system of predatory charges that are often waived for the wealthy and enforced on the middle class. The new normal, hidden fees unfairly keep millions of Americans from their hard-earned money"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: House money : the story of subprime in three acts; title: Tax eaters : the origins of the student debt bubble; title: Driving while broke : how auto insurance drives the wealth gap; title: Shadow bankers and the great wage stagnation : the story of payday lending.