Debt-Gorged British Start to Worry That the Party Is Ending (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Story date: 2008-03-21 09:40:04
Added on: 2008-03-21 22:06:23

For most of the last decade, consumers in Britain went on a debt-financed spending spree, racking up a record £1.4 trillion in debt — more than the country’s gross domestic product.


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