Host Margot Adler talks with Melinda about her credit card debt. Melinda at one point owed $20,000 to credit card companies.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Robert Manning about consumer debt and credit in America.
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Robert Manning
is the author of Credit Card Nation. He is also research professor and director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Consumer advocate Linda Sherry and Fritz Elmendorf of the Consumer Bankers Association debate the policies and practices of credit card companies and whether the industry should be reformed.
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Linda Sherry
is the director of national priorities for Consumer Action, a consumer education and advocacy group.
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Fritz Elmendorf
manages communications and media relations for the Consumer Bankers Association, a retail banking trade group.
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Host Margot Adler asks Liz Pulliam Weston to offer some practical advice about how to manage personal debt.
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Host Margot Adler interviews Tamara Draut about the financial challenges faced by young adults, particularly college debt.
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Host Margot Adler talks with Travis Dupree, a collection specialist with Williams & Fudge Inc., a South Carolina agency that collects outstanding student loans. He is the first-ranked collector at the company.
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Host Margot Adler talks with Howard Karger about the burgeoning fringe economy in America and how the multi-billion dollar industry isn’t as fringe as it might appear.
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