First Person: A Recent Increase in Consumer Debt Is One Trend I Refuse to Follow According to a recent article by Reuters, the total revolving or installment debt charged by American consumers recently reached a staggering record of $2.8 trillion. This record level of debt was reached after an increase of $19.6 billion in just one month - the sharpest one month increase in over a year. Having survived a job loss during the "Great Recession," this rapid return to the use of ...
Aug. 1, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Finance