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Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit

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by: Robert D. Manning

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780465043675
ISBN: 0465043674
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: December 24, 2001
Sales Rank: 321816
Studio: Basic Books

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A fascinating and timely chronicle of America's tortured relationship to money--and the future crisis that looms as a result of our overwhelming reliance on credit.

Credit-card debt is choking American prosperity off at the neck. In Credit Card Nation, Robert D. Manning tells a fascinating story about the present and future consequences of credit dependence across all strata of U.S. society. Through extensive interviews with consumers, Manning talks to debtors, and to average Americans, affected by what Manning describes as our "credit card nation": an American juggernaut of indebtedness that spans personal, corporate, and governmental debt.

Amazon.com Review:
No interest for one year! No annual fee! No minimum payments for six months! And, if you want to believe Robert Manning, there's no way out of the debt that we find ourselves in, as individuals and as a country. Credit Card Nation combines debt of every kind--consumer, corporate, and governmental--and creates a vast landscape of profit-spewing lenders and struggling debtors present at every level of economics. Appalling statistics set readers off on a depressing journey: the years between 1980 and 1994 saw annual consumer charges skyrocket from $170 billion to $581 billion, with the average household carrying over $4,000 in revolving debt. Accompanied by the erasure of nearly $100 billion in corporate debt and tremendous tax cuts for ever-merging conglomerates, the end of the 20th century seems to be just the beginning of an overwhelming cycle. While Manning's book is extensively researched, it is also extremely readable. Individual stories of junk bondsmen, corporate raiders, and middle-class consumers are threaded throughout the pages of charts and statistics, with a few surprises. While most media would have us believe that students who rack up charge accounts are totally irresponsible, the reality is that some of these students are helping their families with cash-advance loans to make mortgage or insurance payments. Emphasis is also placed on the tremendous advertising budgets of credit card companies: Manning comments on "how quickly the cultural norms have changed in the Credit Card Nation," we see a poster insisting "money can't buy you love, but a credit card can get you started." This is not a self-help book, and Manning has no 12-step program for debtors at any level. Credit Card Nation simply tells it as it is. --Jill Lightner

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- Much too Verbose
I think I'm getting sick of reading books from Humanities folks, they are also far too verbose. This book is not an exception. This book could have been much shorter if the author stopped repeating himself and wrote in a less verbose style.

There are a few interesting tidbits of information in the book, but overall its not worth reading.

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- Robert D. Manning is one of the most influential "public" scholars in the US
Robert D. Manning is a rare combination of influential scholar and public policy "statesmen" whose work has not only inspired hundreds of scholars projects and thousands of media stories but also directly influence public understanding and regulation of financial institutions, the deregulated banking system, subprime lending, and the global dimensions of asset-backed securities.

Author of the widely acclaimed book, CREDIT CARD NATION, and editorial advisor of the powerful documentary, ... Read More

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- One nation, under debt, with liberty and justice for some
We're in the middle of an ongoing social and economic crisis according to Robert D. Manning, author of "Credit Card Nation". And with supporting evidence like his figures of every credit cardholder having 10 cards in their name and every family revolving over $4,000 in debt (the number now is over $7,000), it's easy to see why he feels like it is a crisis. In this fascinating book, Manning describes the situation thoroughly, shows who's at fault, and what we should expect as a result of the situation. ... Read More

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- Valuable information but the writing style is odd
I have no arguments with Prof. Manning's points, although I suppose I too was less than moved by the stories of college students who had to declare bankruptcy to pay for their bar tabs and expensive trips. I just didn't care about those predicaments all that much. But what I found less than valuable about this book was the writing style - as the professional reviewer said, it was not only filled with jargon, but in my opinion seems to have been written a few sentences at a time, with long gaps in between ... Read More

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- Scary stuff
A great overview of the precarious state of credit we've reached and how we got here. Good lessons for all: policy-makers, borrowers, lenders, college students.

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