Status Updates From Borrow: The American Way of...

"...there is now an over abundance of capital in the world and too few places to put it."

Arguing that investing in consumer debt is easier and appears more lucrative than investing in businesses.

All this talk about Harold Ickes's desire to harness mortgages to improve housing stock and stabilize markets reminds me of his role in redlining. So far, this book has not even remotely touched on Black citizens' exclusion from these markets. What a different America we could have been.

From a period novel and morality tale about debt: "must the taxpayers who haven't as yet been ruined, be forced to undertake the support of five people who couldn't struggle through a world that didn't include oil burners and Venetian blinds?"