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Oct 2022
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S4E15: Debt - the Good, the Bad, the Ugl...

Christopher M. Chandler, Kris Schauer
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The amount of debt that Americans are accruing is growing year by year. On the one hand, Americans use to debt to manage their lives, but on the other hand it becomes almost too much to bear. There are many ways in which Americans can fall into to debt, but we will stick to just a couple: credit, student and medical debt.

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