Culture & Economics & Productivity 18 Jul 2008 11:32 am

A history of debt in America

While going through my RSS reader this morning, I came across one of JD's daily links posts, and one of them was to A History of Debt in America. It's quite a long article, but well worth reading. Unfortunately for people like me, reading large quantities of text on a screen gets to be painful after a few minutes.

I whipped up a quick PDF of all of the pages, and Tom, the author of the article, has graciously allowed me to post it here.

It's 21 pages long, and will take you a little while to read it, but it's worth the time.

PDF link.

If you enjoyed this, you may enjoy my post on how paying off debt is like folding laundry — a behavioral, as opposed to mathematical approach to paying off debt.

3 Responses to “A history of debt in America”

  1. on 19 Jul 2008 at 3:00 pm 1.The History of Debt in America (Now in PDF!) ∞ Get Rich Slowly said …

    [...] of the long article about the history of debt in America that you posted recently. I cooked up a PDF version because I like to read long articles offline, and he has agreed to let me post it. He will also be [...]

  2. on 04 Nov 2008 at 9:36 pm 2.Ashley said …

    What is the Author's, of A History of Debt in America, full name? I need it so I can use him as a reference.

  3. on 05 Nov 2008 at 3:30 pm 3.Rian said …

    http://www.ihatedebt.com/AboutusPrivacypolicy.php

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