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Unwinding the Credit Boom

We are at the end of the credit boom -- certainly the six-year boom and maybe the 60-year boom. Has any society ever created so many ways for people to go into hock? In 2003 Americans had 1.46 billion credit cards, or five per person. Home mortgages total $9 trillion, and some initially don't...
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By Robert J. Samuelson