Sarah Jaffe has an excellent if depressing piece about the recent spike in consumer debt: So why the jump in buying on credit, if people still don’t have money to spend? Carlos X. Alexandre at Seeking Alpha explained: “…the most logical interpretation is that as other sources of cash are drying up – jobs, equity […]
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