Richard Lord, author of American Nightmare: Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure of the American Dream, will be on Air America's "Ring of Fire" from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. EST this Saturday.
You can listen in online if Air America is not available in your area. I talked with Richard when he was researching his book about the North Carolina law and about the effort in Congress to pass predatory lending legislation.
He focuses more on abuses in purchase money mortgages, while I see the problem more as equity stripping in refinancing, as I described in my diary yesterday. But I quibble: Richard Lord knows what he's talking about and he's worth listening to.