{"id":51463,"date":"2017-08-07T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T04:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=51463"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T04:35:13","slug":"americans-now-have-the-highest-credit-card-debt-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=51463","title":{"rendered":"Americans Now Have the Highest Credit-Card Debt in U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had this open in another tab, I wonder if it&#8217;s related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/7\/7\/15925488\/opioid-epidemic-deaths-2016\">In 2016, Drug Overdoses Likely Killed More Americans than Wars in Vietnam and Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#greenshoots<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/us-households-will-soon-have-as-much-debt-as-they-had-in-2008-2017-04-03\">MarketWatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>American consumers just hit a scary milestone.<\/p>\n<p>They now collectively have the most outstanding revolving debt \u2014 often summarized as credit card debt \u2014 in U.S. history, according to a report Monday released by the Federal Reserve. Americans had $1.021 trillion in outstanding revolving credit in June 2017. This beats the previous record in April 2008, when consumers had a collective $1.02 trillion in outstanding credit revolving credit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this open in another tab, I wonder if it&#8217;s related: In 2016, Drug Overdoses Likely Killed More Americans than Wars in Vietnam and Iraq #greenshoots Via: MarketWatch: American consumers just hit a scary milestone. They now collectively have the most outstanding revolving debt \u2014 often summarized as credit card debt \u2014 in U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-economy","category-health","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51464,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51463\/revisions\/51464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}