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Numberscruncher: Angels, Demons, and Debt

Ann Logue May 19, 2009 6

In the summer of 1998, Harper’s Magazine published one of its most talked-about stories, Vince Passaro’s narrative of how his family accumulated $63,000 in credit card debt. He and his wife had academic jobs

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Credit Where Credit’s Due

Ann Logue April 28, 2009 10

This month, Thomas Geoghegan has an article in Harpers about how debt changed working-class America. Barack Obama sat down with bailed-out banks to discuss their credit card practices. I paid a bunch of ridiculous

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Pop Politico: “Debt Nation”

Ted Asregadoo October 28, 2008 11

When I was growing up, I remember my father used to keep a credit card hidden in the back of his closet.  It was one of those “In case of emergency” things that he

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