Epidemic of debt spreads to Britain's middle class


	Epidemic of debt spreads to Britain's middle class

JICWyllie

5-18-2008 6:03 AM

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economy, consumers, i-debt, i-arrears, i-increase, i-record

JICWyllie says:

This is where the much bigger second wave of the unsustainable debt tsumani begins.

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