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  Broke USA

  Broke USA ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: From Pawnshops to Poverty Inc. -How the Working Poor Became Big Business. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,

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  Agent Zapata , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min

  On an afternoon in February 2011, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were driving on a highway in central Mexico when they were ambushed by drug cartel gunmen. In the firefight that followed, one of the agents, Jaime Zapata, was killed - the first U.S. law enforcement agent to die in the line of duty in Mexico in more than a quarter of a century. Mexican authorities quickly apprehended members of the Zetas, Mexico's most notorious criminal organization, who confessed to the murder. It looked like an open-and-shut case - until it was discovered that the guns used to kill Zapata had come from the United States, purchased by American gun buyers who investigators had been watching for months but hadn't arrested. For the federal law enforcement agencies still reeling from the Fast & Furious scandal, it seemed like a horrible kind of déjà vu. Could Zapata's death have been prevented? Journalist Mary Cuddehe set out to find the answer. The extraordinary story of Agent Zapata traces the chain of events that led to the murder and explores its consequences, a journey that takes us from the seedy pawnshops of East Texas to the cartel-besieged cities of northern Mexico to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Cuddehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003965/bk_acx0_003965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 766min

  For most people, the Great Crash of 2008 has meant troubling times. Not so for those in the flourishing poverty industry, for whom the economic woes spell an opportunity to expand and grow. These mercenary entrepreneurs have taken advantage of an era of deregulation to devise high-priced products to sell to the credit-hungry working poor, including the instant tax refund and the payday loan. In the process they've created an industry larger than the casino business and have proved that pawnbrokers and check cashers, if they dream big enough, can grow very rich off those with thin wallets. Broke, USA is Gary Rivlin's riveting report from the economic fringes. From the annual meeting of the national check cashers association in Las Vegas to a tour of the foreclosure-riddled neighborhoods of Dayton, Ohio, here is a subprime Fast Food Nation featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and memorable scenes. Rivlin profiles players like a former small-town Tennessee debt collector whose business offering cash advances to the working poor has earned him a net worth in the hundreds of millions, and legendary Wall Street dealmaker Sandy Weill, who rode a subprime loan business into control of the nation's largest bank. Rivlin parallels their stories with the tale of those committed souls fighting back against the major corporations, chain franchises, and newly hatched enterprises that fleece the country's hardworking waitresses, warehouse workers, and mall clerks. Timely, shocking, and powerful, Broke, USA offers a much-needed look at why our country is in a financial mess and gives a voice to the millions of ordinary Americans left devastated in the wake of the economic collapse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Sowers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002251/bk_harp_002251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Broke USA

  Broke USA - From Pawnshops to Poverty Inc. -How the Working Poor Became Big Business: ab 8.99 €

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