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Credit on tap?

stepbar · 2007-06-29 21:24:12

I was reading this story on RTE - http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0629/credit.html and it made me think about how much access people have to credit nowadays. If I felt the urge to go on an utter bender, between Credit Cards (x2) and Overdrafts (x2), I could muster up €7.7k :eek: which would be around 25% of my gross…

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29-06-2007 10:24pm

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I was reading this story on RTE -

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0629/credit.html

and it made me think about how much access people have to credit nowadays. If I felt the urge to go on an utter bender, between Credit Cards (x2) and Overdrafts (x2), I could muster up €7.7k :eek: which would be around 25% of my gross earnings. Do you think people have too much access to credit?

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#2 30-06-2007 12:02am
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Yes, it's ruining some peoples lives. On the others hands, some people couldn't live without it.

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