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Inflation is driving up consumer credit card debt by billions of dollars

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That’s more than triple the average amount of new debt households have taken on in that period since after the Great Recession of 2007-08. Still, the effects of higher interest rates seem clear. interest rate was a little above zero until March 2022, at the end of the first quarter of the year. The benchmark U.S.