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Debt Datapoints of the Day
by Felix Salmon
Jun 11, 2008
Jun 11, 2008
David Brooks did a good job yesterday of focusing the econoblogosphere's attention on a report entitled "For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture". Or at least he would have done, if it weren't for the fact that the report isn't actually available online: in order to read it, you need to print out a PDF and send a $7 check in the mail to an address in New York; in return, you'll get a physical copy of the report, which can't (obvs) be copy-and-pasted. As a means of drawing the public's attention to a very important issue, this is probably as idiotic as they come.
In any case, between Brooks and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, it's at least possible to list a number of very alarming datapoints:
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