Well, thanks to the beautiful birth of the credit card, people in the US have been in personal credit debt for 50 years now!

The WSJ created a little video outlining how this wonderful invention that can spur consumer spending has created $2.5 Trillion in debt with 640 million card in issuance, which as you can calculate is over 2 cards per person (yes, even babies use credit cards).

 Watch the WSJ video here.

…and many more…


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