Tag Archive for ‘Gary Rivlin’
Hear Me Speak at the Cleveland City Club
An alternative title for this post might be: Presidents, World Leaders, and Me. I happily said yes when I was invited to address the Cleveland City Club — and then I received a more formal invitation in the mail that listed some of its past speakers. The City Club was having me for its Friday [...]
Even Bloomberg “Loves” BROKE
Well, I’m not sure what Mayor Mike thinks of BROKE but it was sweet to log on Twitter a few days back and read this tweet posted by the book review editor at Bloomberg News: “Bloomberg’s Jim Pressley, master reviewer of all finance books, loves ‘Broke USA’ by @grivlin” Lots of quotables in this review [...]
Payday: “like mosquitoes adapting”
Sure, sure, everyone was focused on whether Ohio would go for Obama or McCain in November 2008 but the question that drew me to the state a couple of times that fall was whether voters there would side with the payday lenders, who were seeking the right to continue charging fees that worked out to [...]
Way Too Much of Me/ radio links
Exciting week. My first book reading in 11 years, at the big Barnes & Noble on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A really nice turnout, which was very gratifying. Earlier in the day I was on the Leonard Lopate show, on WNYC, which no doubt helped draw people to the bookstore (Lopate is a great interviewer), [...]
‘Incisive,’ ‘scathing,’ ‘important,’ ‘scrupulously fair’
Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank based here in New York, talks with me about BROKE USA on CSPAN-2′s “After Words.” It was taped in May on the convention floor of Book Expo America and first aired on June 12th. Click here to watch. Also, a real thrill to see my [...]
“Fresh Air” interview with Terry Gross
“Turning Poverty Into a Multibillion-Dollar Industry”: Click here to hear me talking with Terry Gross about Broke USA. The rest of the description from the “Fresh Air” website: “Pawnshops, payday lenders, check cashers and rent-to-own companies take in $33 billion a year. In writing his new book, Broke, USA, Gary Rivlin discovered how the businesses [...]
BROKE ‘dissects,’ ‘eviscerates’ the ‘vulture finance’ industry
“Rivlin opens up, dissects and eviscerates the gigantic industry of vulture finance…a fascinating book.”
Poverty, Inc. Asks, ‘Why Us?’
The subprime credit card issuer charging interest rates of 25 percent or more. All those subprime auto lenders charging 20 or 22 or 25 percent a year in interest for a car loan. Others in the poverty industry. All are saying the same thing: We didn’t cause the Great Recession of 2008 so why is [...]
Book Excerpt in Biz Wk: “Payday Nation”
Payday Nation: How lending to people against their future paychecks went from a single shack to a strip mall staple
Planet Money and the Payday Loan
I love the way this podcast from the talented folks at NPR’s “Planet Money” opens: with an ad the payday lending industry created to oppose a range of reform measures working their way through Congress (the subject of my last blog entry). Except here, when the industry is calling the shots, they’re not payday lenders [...]
