"For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors."

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My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.

— Jake Halpern