Foreclosures are hitting record highs; Us citizens are declaring personal bankruptcy at prices ten occasions that during the Great Despair; more college students drop out due to debts than due to poor grades; reviews of debtor suicides proliferate in the mass media. In other words, it’s a great time to maintain the banking business.

Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that’s sometimes hysterical and often horrifying: from NEVADA towards the Bible Belt, from the backwoods to inner cities where in fact the world’s about Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Period of Predatory Lenders largest monetary giants troll because of their next victims. Welcome to a country populated by debt pirates, commercial predators, human being credit credit card billboards, debt evangelists, mega-million money spec homes, and, obviously, trillions of dollars of easy credit. Combining startling specifics with a lot more startling examinations of people, institutions, the government, and contemporary religion, James Scurlock exposes very real, potentially disastrous systems and procedures that are drowning an incredible number of Americans within a flood of easy credit.

Growing on his award-winning documentary of the same name, hailed as ‘scathing’ and ‘unusually entertaining’ by Newsweek and Range, Maxed Out confirms that Scurlock is an author ‘as fiendishly clever as the banking institutions and credit card companies he will go after’ (Barbara Ehrenreich, bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed).