What strikes me is how this “intelligent” guy is still in denial. I mean, he never mentions any realistic plan to adjust his life to live within his means. He has learned nothing from all this.
His MO has been to snake around (within?) the system ignoring the fact that numbers don’t lie and assuming that mathematics is a theory.
The light will never come on for Edward. He and his enabler wife are stuck on stupid. Their fear of crushing their children’s rosy life has them paralyzed in a financial vortex of disaster.
Sales from his book with push his bottom farther down — but only for a while.
He is in a death spiral and doesn’t even know it. Too bad. He will find out soon enough.