. >> up next on book tv, after words with guest host of other nomi prins. this week jake halpern and his latest book "bad paper: chasing debt from wall street to the underworld". it tells the story of a former bank executive and a former bank robber going into business together to collect unpaid bank debts by often questionable means. the program is about an hour. >> high and welcome. i'm nomi prins, here today with jake halpern, the author of the fascinating and horrifying new book, "bad paper" -- "bad paper: chasing debt from wall street to the underworld". welcome. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: this book is incredible, and so is your story. and i think that that's true -- that to really mirror each other. this takes place in buffalo new york. and you are from there, aren't you? >> guest: that is right. i grew up there, my dad and his wife still live there. i go back often. it is how i find my way into this world. >> host: you talk about a particular and many unsavory characters struggling to make their own way in the world and often have pr

. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host author nomi prins. this week jake halpern and his latest book "bad paper: chasing debt from wall street to the underworld." it tells the story of a former tank executive andy for bank robber going into business together to collect unpaid bank debts but often questionable means. the program is about one hour. >> host: hi and welcome. i'm nomi prins, i'm here today with jake halpern, the author of a fascinating and horrifying new book "bad paper." j., welcome. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: this book is incredible and so is your story. i think the to really mirror each other. this takes place in buffalo, new york, a lot of it. you are from there, aren't you transferred that's right. i grew up there. my dad and his wife still live there. it's how i find my way into this world. >> host: you talk about a particular, many unsavory characters that are scrambling to make some piece of the world and often have prison records and have been drug dealers and so forth. there's a fellow named jimmy that com

we are back with alan knuckman, nomi prins and catherine.ssume this would hit retailers just as price of gas is coming down so they were hoping to get more business. >> retail is really hard anyway. retail is very much hit-and-miss. i'm looking at it from another angle. look what happened with alibaba in singles' day, they were too big to mail. so many sales it shut down their mailing infrastructure. so that is the play. look at ups and fedex. it doesn't matter where you buy it, the stuff has to be shipped. they will gain from this holiday season more so than anything regardless of the weather. david: well, nomi, i guess what you do, you go long on amazons and alibabas and go short on shopping mall reits, right? >> i don't think it is that easy. david: go ahead, nomi. >> well, no, i mean the reit, the physical shopping locations are places people aren't going to want to go to in as much abundance if snowing and sleeting and very cold. i emphasize with all of that living in los angeles. i'm sorry about that for everybody. i do think online re