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Gillespie: Foundations of Economics

Unit 24

Personal debt
The levels of personal debt in the UK continue to reach extremely high proportions. In 2006 there were 100,000 personal insolvencies and the level looks set to rise even higher. For more information on consumer debt visit
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6225691.stm
There is also a BBC debt test you can take to see if you should be worrying!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/business/debtcheck/html/index.stm

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