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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by jhwang5 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:26PM (#22980644)
Now try 1) plotting that against household debt, 2) and against other countries.
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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by vonmoltke on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:04PM (#22980980)
Household savings (latest): https://data.oecd.org/chart/5VU5

Household debt (latest): https://data.oecd.org/chart/5VU6

You can play with the charts to plot trends for as long as the OECD have data for each value. The position of the US isn't great, but it isn't terrible either.

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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by jhwang5 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:13PM (#22981058)
These are aggregate metrics - in a country like the US that's in top 5 in terms of income gini-coefficient, I suspect medians will paint a very different picture.
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