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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172147.24527@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com> <1992Dec22.152116.8061@inel.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:21:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.152116.8061@inel.gov> whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com>, kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
- >|> You think the national debt is bad? Look at the CONSUMER debt! It was
- >|> something like 12 trillion in 1990. ...
- >
- >Or roughly $50,000 for every man, woman, child and probably most of the
- >cats dogs and parakeets in the US of A. This seems to be on the very edge
- >of credibility. perhaps even round the bend.
- >
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- I remember encountering a figure close to $12 trillion for the
- total private debt (including consumer and corporate).
- It arose in the discussion of Barron's and the D-word.
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