Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Guest Post: Debt-Serfdom Is Now The New American Norm

Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
Debt-Serfdom Is Now the New American Norm
Trapped assets that generate no income streams in the present are not capital; the value of such non-productive assets is illusory. Strip away these trapped assets and the reality is revealed: most American households toil to service their debts.
The typical American household is insolvent: its debts exceed its assets. There is nothing fancy about calculating insolvency: if debts exceed assets, the

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