From decoding the terms of a loan to simply accessing and managing your personal checking account, journalist John Lanchester maintains the language created to describe financial transactions is often intentionally used to hide the truth from the public. How to Speak Money defines these arcane terms, offering insight into how ordinary people can reclaim their finances from the banks, credit card companies, stock executives, and others who seek to control it. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Lanchester is also the author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital. He’ll appear in conversation with Steve Scher, Town Hall’s Fall Scholar in Residence.