The Debt Trap: How Banks, Loans, Credit Cards, Buy-Now-Pay-Later Schemes, Consumerism, and Financial Illiteracy Keep Millions Poor
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You did everything right. You work hard, you try to save, you tell yourself next month will be different — so why does the money never stay? For millions of people, the answer isn't laziness or bad arithmetic. It's a system: one that banks, lenders, card companies, app designers, and advertisers spent centuries building, so that borrowing feels normal, easy, even responsible — while the real cost quietly moves wealth from those who owe to those who lend. The Debt Trap pulls back the curtain on that system — and then hands you the way out. Spanning the history, psychology, and hidden machinery of debt — from ancient grain loans to the mobile-loan apps that light up a phone at 2 a.m. — this is the rare money book that treats you as an intelligent adult who was simply never shown how the machine works from the inside. It doesn't moralise about your spending. It doesn't sell one rigid system. It shows you the trap clearly, then maps a calm, stage-by-stage path out — and beyond, into real wealth. Inside, you'll learn: Why even smart, disciplined people borrow badly — the forces that override what you already know How banks, credit cards, digital lenders, and buy-now-pay-later schemes actually make their money The true cost of debt beyond the balance — on your mind, your marriage, your children, and your freedom A clear, sequenced plan to face your numbers, escape high-interest debt, and never go back How to cross to the other side of the coin and make money work for you Grounded in the real financial lives of the emerging world — with a close, unflinching look at Kenya, home to one of the most instructive debt stories on earth — The Debt Trap speaks to anyone who has ever felt the game was rigged and wondered how to win it anyway. You don't need a finance background. You need only the willingness to look honestly at a system that profits from your not looking. The way out begins on the first page. Read more
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Publication date : June 26, 2026
Language : English
File size : 56.5 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 615 pages
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