Consumer Credit Has Fallen Off a Cliff

This is the story we’ve been telling here at The Daily Reckoning for two years. Americans have to cut back. They are out of time and out of money. Ten years closer to retirement than they were in before the tech stock crash, Baby Boomers are not a penny richer. Now, they’re facing a funky economy where housing prices are in decline, jobs are hard to find and lenders are reticent to lend them more...