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The growth of consumer debt

| October 25, 2011

Show Notes:

Credit card debt began to rise sharply in the 1990s with major marketing campaigns. The middle class started to make up for a decline in real wages by using credit to make ends meet. Robert Manning is author of Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit.

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