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Credit card debt going DOWN?! Mass hysteria!

August 23rd, 2009 | by mbhunter |

DINKs Finance jogged my memory of this U.S. National Debt Clock in a recent post, so I popped over to check it out.

Of course, it’s mostly really bad news:  $11.7 trillion on the national debt; another person gets unemployed every 20 seconds; the unfunded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare, and the prescription drug benefit, are pushing $59 trillion.

But there was one piece of good news – perhaps an indication of some responsible American behavior, or perhaps merely a micro-drop of Wite-Out® for the reams of red ink, perhaps just a statistical anomaly.  USDebtClock.org’s take is that credit card debt is decreasing.

This is known in the personal finance world as a Very Good Thing.  We’ll see how long it continues.

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