Posted on 01/03/2025 4:56:15 PM PST by delta7
Credit card defaults in the US skyrocketed by 50% in the past year. Credit card defaults reached $46 billion in the first nine months of 2024, a level not seen since 2010. The cost of living has simply surpassed manageable levels for the majority of households.
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Americans are feeling the impact of inflation and compounding interest. The New York Federal Reserve found that credit card debt hit a record high in September 2024 after surpassing $1.17 trillion during Q3. The Fed also reported that household debt reached a high of $17.94 trillion, with mortgages ($12.59 trillion), autos ($1.64 trillion), and student debt ($1.61 trillion) composing most of the debt. Household debt has been rising for the past ten consecutive years, but now, the debt is simply out of control.
As of December 2024, the average APR was 24.43%. Buy now, pay later methods have seen an uptick in recent years. Donald Trump has proposed capping interest at 10%, a level not seen since the early 90s. Consumer debt has never been higher and countless households have fallen into a snowball situation where they simply accumulate more debt in a failed attempt to pay off the old.
Banks are naturally against this cap. Those in disagreement believe banks will be reluctant to lend and tighten their requirements. To some extent, that may not be a negative. Living within your means has completely changed under Bidenomics and everyone is adjusting to the new cost of living. In the meantime, people need to catch up to get back on their feet before the debt vortex sucks them into a hole that becomes nearly impossible to climb out of.
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Consumers have been forced to pay for basic necessities on credit due to the astounding rise in prices for basics like energy, food, and rent. “While working Americans catch up, we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit-card interest rates,” Trump said at the rally in New York. “We can’t let them make 25 and 30 percent.”
Now, Trump is proposing a temporary cap. We permit countless stimulus packages that never stimulate the economy and hand out funds recklessly to help those on hard times. Yet, no one has proposed temporarily capping credit card fees to give consumers time to pay off their debts. The banks are still profiting, albeit less.
Americans are drowning in debt and the White House can no longer ignore this heightening crisis. The banks may be against a cap, but absolutely no one will get paid if this debt is sent to collectors. Unfortunately, Trump’s tariff proposal will only steepen consumer costs if implemented. The Fed must stop lying to the public about inflation as essentials like shelter and food continue to rise.
Biden never addressed these issues and have allowed them to snowball into a full-on crisis. Once upon a time, a man could work a decent job, afford a home, family, and save for retirement comfortably. Now, dual-income households are working to barely stay afloat and drowning in debt for financing the essentials. It is time to focus on America and repair this nation to allow people to have a decent quality
There are car accounts out there pushing 40%... I can’t even imagine. 29.9% is actually fairly common. And as you quoted - the “average” is 24.43...
In full-afterburner mode...
Re: 40 - but, but… Socrates!
A Furiously jackassin’ New Year...
https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/historical-credit-card-interest-rates/25577
I do not cry for the banks at all.
They are acting like mafia as shown by the historical rates vs prime rate.
not only that, they get to write off their bad debt.
Banks get to write off losses? You're kidding me!
My statement is this: Paying off credit card balances on a monthly basis with your own money is economic activism.
You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by creating a “hate Armstrong” web page.
Then just link to it every time an Armstrong article is posted.
You are welcome.
This should keep you busy for awhile. He has his latest reports available.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/products/coming-institutional-reports-for-2025/
“ QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I have followed you for three years. I can see why you are regarded as the world’s highest-paid advisor and have offices worldwide. You are also the only advisor not blocked around the globe…. We are preparing several Institutional Reports on governments for 2025. You can subscribe to Socrates or buy reports, but I cannot charge for any direct advice whatsoever to any government….”
Who didn’t see that coming? What’s the next parting act of whoever is pretending to be president, forgiving all credit card debt? I mean why not, the taxpayers surely wouldn’t mind, right?
“Using the rule of 70, that debt will double in less than 3 years.
That’s just crazy.”
What’s crazy is sing credit cards as loans - what’s criminal is the admin that screwed the economy to the point where credit card companies can be loan sharks...at least when Carter fu..ed the economy with high interest rates, our bank accounts also gave us larger returns - my credit union give between 0.3% and 0.5% which is all lopsided - back then, I got more interest on 7k than I do on 120K today.
“You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by creating a “hate Armstrong” web page.”
There are already a lot of webpages dedicated to the evils of this scammer!
Full Disclosure required.
“—– anonymous —–” = “Martin Armstrong”
“I can see why you are regarded as the world’s highest-paid advisor and have offices worldwide.”
ROTFLMAO!
Armstrong, the convicted felon, lost his securities license and is barred from giving financial advice or associating with financial advisors.
These worldwide offices are about as real as the legendary Socrates computer.
Was Armstrong using Socrates when he lost $700,000,000 of his clients’ money in that $3 billion ponzi scheme that cost him eleven years in the pen?
Your posts are amusing.
If we have an article entitled “The Sky is Blue” you will respond with relentless debunking of the author.
As a result the debate about the color of the sky just turns into a mud-slinging contest.
“Banks get to write off losses? You’re kidding me!”
Sort of. They still have to eat the losses.
The credit card balance is counted as an asset. If, after 180 days, it is considered uncollectible it is removed as an asset.
Nobody refutes my facts on Armstrong.
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Martin A. Armstrong, the founder, chairman, and owner of Princeton Economics
International Ltd (”Princeton Economics”), an unregistered investment adviser, appeals from the
decision of an administrative law judge. The law judge barred Armstrong from association with
any investment adviser based on Armstrong’s conviction on a single count of conspiracy to
commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and commodities fraud and his injunction from violation of
antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. We base our findings on an independent
review of the record, except with respect to those findings not challenged on appeal.
II.
On August 17, 2006, Armstrong, then fifty-six years old, pled guilty to one count of
conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and commodities fraud.1 The district court
sentenced Armstrong to sixty months’ imprisonment and three years supervised release, and
ordered him to pay $80,000,001 in restitution to sixty defrauded customers.2
As part of his guilty plea, Armstrong entered a sworn allocution admitting to and
describing his crime. In his allocution, Armstrong admitted that between 1992 and 1999, he sold
promissory notes issued by Princeton Economics subsidiaries (”Princeton Notes”) to investors,
mostly Japanese corporations. Armstrong, through his agents, represented to the investors that
the proceeds from the sale of the Princeton Notes would be held in accounts at Republic New
York Securities (”Republic”) and that those accounts “would be separate and segregated from
Republic’s own accounts and would not be available to Republic for its own benefit.”
According to Armstrong’s allocution, after he suffered “some millions of dollars of
trading losses,” he decided “not to disclose to investors that . . . substantial losses had been
experienced in this trading of futures. And we did not disclose it.” Armstrong also admitted that
his concealment of his losses went beyond non-disclosure: “letters were sent by my company to
investors concerning how much money was in fact in the accounts assigned to them. I . . . did
send out those letters, even though . . . I knew the amounts in the accounts were less than the letters claimed
https://www.google.com/search?client=tablet-android-samsung-rvo1&sca_esv=5564708a59597dc0&q=martin+armstrong+in+prison&source=lnms&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3JzWreY9LW7LdGrLDAFqYDH2Z7s7jqgHIAW8PVnwe_sR_e-RCOLF8PNV6cgrvTe9W1QlY3sOMCnrD6DpPmucUF3Q4DWCnbUQ16OCFEw0bA3f-fDkHN2jvg4mCdEuzjLUEx9pVfKIHpsyD7iEVBbaffxDuWdv6CcDf_1s7ZzSP88zahQpltA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnnY7VpNyKAxXugIQIHe6sMZwQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1205&bih=541&dpr=2.13
Before I post any article by anybody I will make sure to get your seal of approval first.
Lol.
“You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by creating a “hate Armstrong” web page.”
Question: Do you believe world renowned political analyst Martin Armstrong?
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I tend to not listen to people who were convicted and who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700m ‘
I imagine that few, if any, of the investors he cheated of $700 million would define him as such. I doubt that the regulators that he hid $15 million in assets from think of him in that way.
They probably think of him as a fraudulent felon who deserved every minute of the eleven years he spent imprisoned for ripping people off
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