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MortgagePoint » Your Trusted Source for Mortgage Banking and Servicing News 12 January 2024 G O O D R E A D S Infinite Banking for Real Estate Investors In Levittown's Shadow: Poverty in America's Wealthiest Postwar Suburb The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't The Pandemic Paradox: How the COVID Crisis Made Americans More Financially Secure b y DAV I D B E F O R T This tome by first-time author David Befort aims to walk real estate investors through the concept of "Infinite Banking" as a more precise and inventive way to save money and leverage it wisely. While the book may be on the shorter side, it aims to quickly instruct readers about a "tool that some of the most successful real estate investors in North America have been using for years." This book is for anyone that wants to learn how to put their money to work for them through the power of diversi- fication and wants their view of investment strategies to be reshaped. b y T I M K E O G H After the Great War and WWII, a trend occurred in the suburbs that shaped the modern world: after 1945, white residents "left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and took with them the prosperity they seemed to embody." But in this book, author Tim Keogh offers "an eye-opening account" of the poor, diverse residents who lived and worked in those same neighborhoods. In Lev- ittown's Shadow walks readers through "how public policy produced both suburban plenty and city deprivation— and why ignoring suburban poverty doomed efforts to reduce racial inequality." b y S T E V E N C O N N According to author Steven Conn, "it seems that every- one has an opinion of rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today?" In this book, Conn suggests an entirely different question—is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who believes "we see only what we want to see in the lands beyond the sub- urbs—fantasies about moral (or backward) communities, simpler (or repressive) living, and what it means to be authentically (or wronghead- edly) American." Readers are invited to set aside their preconceptions and take a closer look at the realities of rural America. b y S C O T T F U L F O R D It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic re- shaped nearly every facet of American life starting early in 2020. By April of that year, millions had lost their jobs, and yet somehow, by the time things had stabilized into something resembling "nor- mal," the finances of most Americans had, counterintu- itively, improved. In The Pan- demic Paradox, author Scott Fulford (who draws from and helped design the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "Making Ends Meet" surveys) explores this phenomenon through a series of vignettes focusing on the stories of a handful of Americans. The book presents a vision of how a better, fairer, and more pro- ductive economy is possible.