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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

If You’d Like Another Good Scare . . .

Don't let catastrophic floods be your only worry. The troubled housing market could be much, much sicker than we've been allowed to believe:

Consumer borrowing is so rampant in America that most people who took out a mortgage last year to buy a home ended up spending more than a third of their income to pay that loan and other debts.
Posted by JLM at 7:34 PM
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