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Consumer Debt
Date Submitted: 01/09/2003 13:58:33
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 2 pages (492 words)
Category: / Business & Economy / Economics
Length: 2 pages (492 words)
The reasons we as Americans buy on credit varies, but without it most of us would
probably never be able to purchase necessities such as a home or automobile. The nation's
economy depends on credit, the promise to pay later for goods and services used today;
but along with consumer credit comes consumer debt. With the rise in telemarketing and
commercializing in America it is no wonder why Americans feel the impulse to buy now,
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…because they need them and do not want to wait. Rather than
saving they go into debt, the most common of which is installment debt.
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