35 - Conversation with Dr. Robert Manning

Podcast 35 features an interview by ABI Resident Scholar Lois R. Lupica with Dr. Robert Manning, research professor and director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services and past Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of the Humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Manning is an expert on consumer credit and financial services and is the author of Credit Card Nation and Give Yourself Credit (forthcoming). Dr. Manning discusses the current consumer debt crisis, trends in the market for consumer credit, the impact of the recent bankruptcy amendments on consumers and various strategies for addressing the problem of consumer overindebtedness.

http://abi-podcast.s3.amazonaws.com/abipod035.mp3

Podcast Date: 
Saturday, March 17, 2007