" Edmund Andrews, the economics reporter for the New York Times offers a salutary lesson in how and why ordinary people all over America got so caught up in the real-estate bubble that they never stopped to think about how they were literally mortgaging their future. Andrews details how easy it was for him to get an enormous loan - far larger than he could ever hope to pay back - for a house that he didn't really need but wanted because he was caught up in a fever of love for his new wife, Patti. Busted is a fascinating read, but apparently, Andrews failed to disclose that Patti filed for the second of her two bankruptcies during the time-period he chronicles in Busted and frankly, even from her description in the book, she sounds less "ordinary person" and more entitled spendthrift (she can't seem to give up her J. Crew clothes or her expensive cheeses) and Andrews sounds like a besotted schmoe who ignored his own misgivings until it was too late. "
— Bibliophile, 2/7/2014