{"id":69130,"date":"2009-12-07T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/consumer-credit-falls-for-ninth-straight-month-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:40:00","slug":"consumer-credit-falls-for-ninth-straight-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/69130","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Credit Falls For Ninth Straight Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October saw U.S. consumers&#8217; outstanding credit balances fall by 3.25%, the ninth straight month in a row balances have fallen. It seems clear now that Americans have learned that &#8220;credit&#8221; is not synonymous with &#8220;free money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below, the report from The Fed:<\/p>\n<p>\n<object id=\"_ds_18718911\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" name=\"_ds_18718911\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=18718911&amp;mem_id=1825584&amp;doc_type=pdf&amp;fullscreen=0&amp;allowdownload=1\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/18718911\/Fed-Consumer-Credit-Oct-2009\">Fed Consumer Credit Oct 2009<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/consumer-credit-falls-for-ninth-straight-month-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/consumer-credit-plunges-downward-2009-11\">Consumer Credit Plunges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-says-consumers-are-keeping-credit-cards-for-bare-necessities-2009-11\">Gartman: Here&#8217;s Why Credit Card Delinquencies Fell To 1.1%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-ways-credit-cards-can-still-screw-you-2009-11\">10 Ways Credit Card Companies Are Still Screwing You<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/KeXZGQ6la9g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October saw U.S. consumers&#8217; outstanding credit balances fall by 3.25%, the ninth straight month in a row balances have fallen. It seems clear now that Americans have learned that &#8220;credit&#8221; is not synonymous with &#8220;free money.&#8221; Below, the report from The Fed: Fed Consumer Credit Oct 2009 &#8211; Join the conversation about this story &#187; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}