consumer debt

Yet plastic cards, which make day-to-day transactions so much easier, are often instrumental in creating the worst consumer debt problems.

Smart people work at keeping their monthly consumer debt burden to zero. Borrow only for things that go up in value.

Two years ago I paid off the last of our credit cards and foreswore consumer debt forever.

And yet America's overreliance on consumer debt has happened anyway. Why?

That has needed continuous feeding with a diet of ever decreasing interest rates and ever increasing consumer debt to survive.

The International Monetary Fund estimates that of US consumer debt totalling $1, 914bn, about 14 per cent will turn sour.

Bank write-downs of mortgages and consumer debt accounted for most of that $812 billion reduction.

In a rational world, much lower interest rates on consumer debt would induce considerable additional borrowing, and it has.

The only other G7 economy where consumer debt has declined is Germany, which has also avoided a housing bubble.

Even after the recession ends, economists expect the gradual reduction of the nation's massive consumer debt to take years.

They invented mass consumer debt too - and used it to power an economy that would change history.

You also consider mortgages part of Americans' consumer debt. But, aren't mortgages different?

It has a larger proportion of young people and much higher levels of consumer debt.

Bankruptcy eliminates medical as well as consumer debt.

Credit quality in other classes of consumer debt has been improving; delinquency rates on student loans are rising.

But any recovery in air traffic faced "severe headwinds" , including the high level of consumer debt and high business inventories.

We saw a report that all of the increase in consumer debt could be traced to the government's student loan program.

Moreover, other consumer-debt products are less complex than subprime.

Step three would be big losses on unsecured consumer debt: credit cards, auto loans, student loans and so forth.

Consumer-debt payments relative to incomes are at a 17-year low and household credit scores are rising.

Big losses on commercial property and consumer debt are still to come.

Consumer debt cannot keep growing faster than income forever.

They see the rise in mortgage rates as partly offset by steady to lower rates on corporate and consumer debt.

Pay off all consumer debt before you start paying down the house.

The new agency would regulate mortgages, credit cards and other forms of consumer debt.

The loss of shareholder value in Fannie and Freddie adds to losses from exposure to the housing market and consumer debt.

And last week he unveiled a plan to backstop consumer debt.

WHAT is the state of consumer debt in Brazil?

Consumer debt is higher interest rate than housing debt, and it's foolish to keep it around.

This had to come to an end because of unsustainable consumer debt ratios.

Worst of all, Capital Economics says American consumer debt is more than 130% of disposable income, double its level in the 1980s.

You talk about the way consumer debt has risen over three generations of borrowers. Why are people in such bad shape now?

It later spread into sectors such as corporate and consumer debt.

Lower mortgage rates not only increased housing demand but also freed cash for consumer debt reduction or spending.

Both countries suffer from high debt: Consumer debt in the U. S. , and corporate debt in Japan.

Combined net profits at 19 Korean banks surged to a record Won13, 400bn in 2005, reflecting a full recovery from the consumer debt crisis.

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