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Americans’ Household Debt Hit Nearly $16 Trillion in Q1 2022
May 11, 2022
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Household debt in the United States increased in the first quarter of 2022, reaching $15.84 trillion despite rising inflation and interest rates, according to a report on Household Debt and Credit published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That’s $1.7 trillion more than at the end of 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic…
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