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Books on: consumer debt

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The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer

Book by Juliet B. Schor; Basic Books, 1998

Subjects:

Consumer Behavior--United States, Consumption (Economics)--United States, Credit--United States, Debt--United States, Finance, Personal--United States, Lifestyles--United States, Values--United States

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...nice car, and so I went into debt for one. Then I got a credit...never stopped to pay off past debt. Little by little it kept...had accumulated credit card debts of $19,000 plus a $10...exchanged his job as a bad-debt collector for a more satisfying one as a consumer credit counselor, believes...
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It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience

Book by Lloyd Klein; Praeger Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

Consumer Credit--Social Aspects--United States, Consumer Credit--United States, Credit Cards--United States

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...Information on the importance of consumer debt is incorporated in providing...laws, accompanied by massive consumer debt expansion during the 1980s and...pronounced buying activity. Consumer installment debt outstanding at the end of 1945...
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It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience

Book by Lloyd Klein; Praeger, 1999

Subjects:

Consumer Credit--Social Aspects--United States, Consumer Credit--United States, Credit Cards--United States

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...Information on the importance of consumer debt is incorporated in providing...laws, accompanied by massive consumer debt expansion during the 1980s and...pronounced buying activity. Consumer installment debt outstanding at the end of 1945...
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Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

Book by Lendol Calder; Princeton University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Consumer Credit--United States--History, Consumers--United States--History, Consumption (Economics)--United States--History

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Harper's , 1940 when consumer indebtedness was $5.5 billion : Debt Threatens Democracy Business Week , 1949 when consumer indebtedness had doubled to $11...News World Report , 1959 when consumer debt had tripled again to $39...
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Consumer Choice in the American Economy

Book by Carolyn Shaw Bell; Random House, 1967

Subjects:

Consumers--United States, Consumption (Economics)

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...total short-term debt including single...installment debt among consumers in different income...of short-term consumer debt: the increase...of income and of consumer choice that has...distribution of the total debt illustrate the ambiguities...for short-term consumer debt; supposedly, this...

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Journal Articles on: consumer debt

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Vulnerable Consumers and Debt: Can Social Marketing Assist?

Journal article by Linda Brennan, Zuleyka Zevallos, Wayne Binney; Australasian Marketing Journal, Vol. 19, 2011

Subjects:

Australia, Consumer credit, Debt management, Social marketing, Studies

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...participants define debt, how they classify their debts according to acceptability...to see some liable consumer practices such as credit and mortgages as debt. Firstly, the paper...debt and vulnerable consumers. Secondly, it describes...2010). For many consumers who are living in difficult...appearances to incur debts that they simply cannot...levels of household and consumer debt are also connected...
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Can Measures of the Consumer Debt Burden Reliably Predict an Economic Slowdown?

Journal article by C. Alan Garner; Economic Review - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Vol. 81, 1996

Subjects:

Consumer credit, Consumer spending, Debt, Economic depression, Economic growth, Economic indicators, Reliability, United States

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...1995 likely reflected consumer restraint during the...recent rise in the consumer debt burden remains difficult...financial health of consumers. Some measures of...continue servicing their debts in the event of financial...experience in managing consumer debt. Lower income consumers who become overextended...
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Study Finds Positive Financial Behaviors Increased: Credit Counseling, Debt Management Effective

Journal article by Jinhee Kim, E. Thomas Garman, Benoit Sorhaindo; Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, Vol. 97, 2005

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Consumer behavior, Debt management, Financial counseling

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...paying off his or her unsecured debts by consolidating those debts into one monthly payment disbursed...appropriate for all consumers with debt problems. Also, usually it takes consumers 3 to 5 years to pay off their debts on a DMP, and many drop out...programs (Bagwell, 2000; Consumer Reports, 2001). Furthermore...
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The Courts, Congress and Tax Debts: an Analysis of the Discharge of Tax Debts before and after the Enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005

Journal article by Brian Power; Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law, Vol. 12, 2007

Subjects:

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act 2005-US, Debt, Tax assessments, Tax returns, United States

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...Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of...Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of...all of their tax debts.21 This, however...a creditor whose debts have been discharged...who feels that a debt should have been...must prove that the debt is exempted by a...types of discharged debts, a narrower tax...
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Household Debt Quintiles: Explaining Changes 1983-1989

Journal article by Deborah D. Godwin; Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 32, 1998

Subjects:

Consumer credit--Research, Household surveys--Analysis, Households--Finance

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...dynamics of household debt. Additional hypotheses...THEORY Static views of consumer utility-maximization posit that consumers choose an optimal combination...1992) suggests, "Consumers who have high rates...49). In summary, consumers debt will be influenced...resources, (c) prices of consumer goods and services...

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Magazine Articles on: consumer debt

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From Debt to Dispossession: After Abetting an Unprecedented Growth in Both Government and Consumer Debt, the Federal Reserve May Be Preparing to Reduce the Middle Class to Utter Serfdom

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, November 28, 2005

Subjects:

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2003 (Draft), Bankruptcy law--Evaluation, Consumer credit--Analysis, Consumer credit--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Federal Reserve Board--Laws, regulations and rules

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...Obviously, people who take on debt should be morally and legally...Chapter 7, which permits debts to be expunged. They are...months. Facing intractable debts and rising household expenses...this," commented St. Louis consumer bankruptcy attorney Barbara...Practically everybody is in debt, and it just takes one significant...means that tens of millions of consumers will confront much steeper...
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American Hangover: Unless Income Rises, the Ongoing Consumer Debt Reduction Could Cripple the Recovery

Magazine article by Martin N. Baily, Susan Lund; The International Economy, Vol. 23, Summer 2009

Subjects:

Consumer credit--Forecasts and trends, Gross domestic product--Forecasts and trends, United States economic conditions, United States--Economic aspects

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...Rises, the Ongoing Consumer Debt Reduction Could Cripple...Susan Lund The U.S. consumers seven-year borrowing...II, total household debt outstanding fell rather...defaults on mortgages and consumer debt. Either way, consumers me reducing their debt...jobs, and credit, consumer confidence was recently...
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Court Debt Ruling 'a Warning Shot'

Magazine article; Consumer Policy Review, Vol. 14, November 2004

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Court Debt Ruling a Warning Shot Which...decision in October to wipe out a consumers 300,000 debt is a warning...of unacceptable levels of consumer debt shouldnt be left to the...The case demonstrates how consumer debt can spiral out of control...confusion surrounding the Consumer Credit Act and its need for...
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Consumer Debt on the Rise

Magazine article; Mortgage Banking, Vol. 64, November 2003

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Consumer Debt on the Rise ACCORDING TO A SURVEY BY MYVESTA.ORG, Rockville...Maryland, the average amount of credit-card and unsecured debt has risen almost 50 percent in 2003 and mortgage debt is up almost 25 percent. The average credit-card and...
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Going after Their Goals: With Little Consumer Debt and a Solid Household Income, the Turners Are Ready to Accelerate Their Financial Plans

Magazine article by Carolyn M. Brown; Black Enterprise, Vol. 35, June 2005

Subjects:

Personal income--Management, Retirement planning--Analysis, Retirement planning--Methods, Sauls, Treviette--Investments, Sauls, Treviette--Management, Turner, Reginald--Investments, Turner, Reginald--Management

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Going after Their Goals: With Little Consumer Debt and a Solid Household Income, the Turners Are Ready...in Raleigh, North Carolina, they hardly I have any consumer debt--a little more than $1,000 in credit card balances...

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Newspaper Articles on: consumer debt

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UK Consumer Debt Good for Compass

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 14, 2006

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Consumer credit

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

UK Consumer Debt Good for Compass. Debt advice group...and forecast further improvement in its consumer loans operation. The group said it had...to grow, fuelled by record levels of consumer debt, the company noted. It said its...
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Slowdown in Consumer Debt, Says Bank

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 7, 2006

Subjects:

Banks (Finance)--Reports, Banks (Finance)--Surveys, Consumer credit--Reports, Consumer credit--Surveys

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Consumer Debt, Says Bank. Consumer debt is growing at its slowest...showed that the rate at which debt was rising had slowed to just...December 2004. Also, says A L, consumers intend to reduce their borrowing...and cut their credit card debts over the next six months while...been a turning point for the consumer. "People are now seeing...Since then overall credit card debt has fallen by pounds 2.7...
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Consumer Debt Puts Banks on Red Alert

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2006

Subjects:

Consumer credit--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Consumer Debt Puts Banks on Red Alert. Byline: IAN...sterling20bn - but all eyes will be on consumer debts, which are rising to dangerous levels...customers. Even so, analysts expect bad debt provisions to rise sharply this year...
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Banking Code Shored Up after Concerns over Consumer Debt

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 31, 2006

Subjects:

Banking industry--Finance, Consumer credit

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Shored Up after Concerns over Consumer Debt. The Banking Code is being...lending following concerns about consumer debt. The move comes after the...sufficient lengths to ensure consumers could afford repayments...borrow money to consolidate debts, lenders who think the customer...
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Fears for Consumer Debt and Small Business as Interest Rates Rise to 5%

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 10, 2006

Subjects:

Bank of England--Statistics, Consumer credit--Prices and rates, Consumer credit--Statistics, Interest rates, Small business--United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Fears for Consumer Debt and Small Business as Interest Rates...it would plunge thousands into deep consumer debt and clobber small businesses. Russell...sticky (and) falling retail sales. Consumers will now brace themselves for further...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: consumer debt

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Credit Card

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...lowering savings rates (because consumers do not need to save money...credit as a way of encouraging consumers to buy. Concern has been...distribution of bank credit cards to consumers who may not be able to pay...excessive encouragement of consumer debt that has cut savings in the...
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Poland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...free-market economy. Reforms initially resulted in high unemployment, hyperinflation, shortages of consumer goods, a large external debt, and a general drop in the standard of living. The situation later stabilized, however, and during...
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Bulgaria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...industrial enterprises were state-controlled. A stagnant economy, shortages of food, energy, and consumer goods, an enormous foreign debt, and an obsolete and inefficient industrial complex instigated attempts at market-oriented reform...
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Mauritania

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...are machinery and equipment, petroleum products, capital and consumer goods, and food. The principal trade partners are France, Belgium, Japan, and Spain. Mauritania has a large foreign debt. Government Mauritania is governed under the constitution of...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...fulfilling the demands for long-unobtainable consumer goods. The shortening of the postwar...unemployment, the reduction of the federal debt, and other signs of well-being (although...offices in bioterror attacks. Although consumer spending and the stock market rebounded...

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