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Brooklyn: Adult Education
Join me and author Michael W. Hudson (The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America–and Spawned a Global Crisis) on November 2 for our presentation “Duped! A forensic investigation into the art of scams, skulduggery and salesmanship,” part of the Adult Education lecture series at Brooklyn, New York’s, Union Hall. Curated by Carrie McLaren and Charles Star, Adult Ed brings nerds like me and Mike together with actual, funny comedians for monthly evenings of laughter and erudition. November’s theme is “Money.”
Mike is going to be recreating “The Track,” a sales routine subprime lenders used to bamboozle borrowers into taking out loans they couldn’t afford. I’m going to show how generations of middle-class strivers got caught in the swamps of Florida real estate speculation. Yes, November 2 is election night. I believe I mentioned comedians? If you need them, they’ll be there at Union Hall.
How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate.
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