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comment by katakowsj
katakowsj  ·  1287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Credit-Card Debt Keeps Falling. Banks Are On Edge.

Watching it now. Elizabeth Warren is an actually human politician, smart, personable and defends the average consumer. The douche, Andrew Khan, guy that realized folks will bleed more money longer when traditional minimum payments are halved is a soul-less Sith Lord of consumer lending. Thanks for the recommendation.





kleinbl00  ·  1287 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah she wasn't even a politician then.

What I love about Liz Warren is she was an archetypal bootstraps Republican lawyer who dove into bankruptcy law with the common knowledge that everyone declaring bankruptcy was a spendthrift scofflaw abusing the system and once she got into the numbers and discovered that bankruptcies are invariably families whose tragedies cost more than their wages, she basically became a bleeding-heart liberal.

The credit card guy they interviewed is like in Witness Protection or some shit. Dude knows he's a walking pariah but clearly, he gets paid enough to put up with it.