Broke, USA

On the way to somewhere else, OS found this excerpt of the new book Broke, USA, by Gary Rivlin.

He's still wiping tears from his eyes, reading how these people smilingly charge 391 percent interest to lend money to poor people, with credit lines supplied to their businesses by major banks.

OS once had the misfortune of knowing someone who was a financier of these operations, from a private hedge fund he now suspects was being used to launder cash for, let us say, businessmen in the 'pharmaceutical trade'. It was a frightening experience, as OS was baffled to be in the presence of a person who essentially had managed to remove any trace of conscience from his soul, while appearing totally respectable. The smell of sulfur lingers in the memory, to this day.

There must be a Hell somewhere, in some form, to accommodate the souls of these people in the afterlife.