KQED Frontline October 24, 2012
Played a game with the banks, with the Banks Holding all the cards. Changing the terms, raising Interest Rates, changing the rules of the games. Consumers use plastic for 100,000 transactions a minute. It has produced billions in profits, and nearly a trillion dollars in debt. Americans people simply cannot pay back the level of debt that has grown over the last 30 years. And the credit card industry even played a hand in the economic meltdown. You had consumers refinancing their homes to pay off all their credit cards. Apply now. And then they went back out and filled their credit cards back ...