Elena Botella was a Senior Business Manager at Capital One, where she ran the company’s Secured Card credit card and taught credit risk management. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, Slate, American Banker, and The Nation.
"""An ambitious insider’s critique of the 'debt machine' created by credit card companies and financial culture. . . . Original, passionate fusion of progressive polemic and stark portrait of the labyrinth of contemporary consumer finance."" * Kirkus *"