As Americans rack up record-high credit card debt after a year of soaring inflation and interest rate hikes, charge-offs are beginning to roll in at the start of a looming default crisis.
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Now, signs of a looming debt crisis among U.S. consumers are beginning to flash, and it is a triple whammy: credit card balances are at anA shopper pays for produce with a credit card at a farmers market in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 2, 2022. More Americans are carrying credit card debt now than a year ago.that began last summer as struggling consumers increasingly scrambled to stay afloat. But the dam is starting to crack, and the defaults have already begun to roll in.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently reported a 15% year-over-year increase in total credit card balances for the third quarter of 2022, which amounts to the largest surge in more than 20 years.
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