The growth in personal debt in one chart

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Credit card debt is not, of course, the whole of the personal debt market. But the following chart, from the FT, provides a remarkable insight into the growth of the personal debt problem:

The 2009 crisis and its impact on households is apparent. But things are now much worse. And this debt is subject to penal rates of interest.


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