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18 August 2017updated 09 Sep 2021 6:03pm

We’re racing towards another private debt crisis – so why did no one see it coming?

The Office for Budget Responsibility failed to foresee the rise in household debt. 

By David Graeber

This is a call for a public inquiry on the current situation regarding private debt.

For almost a decade now, since 2007, we have been living a lie. And that lie is preparing to wreak havoc on our economy. If we do not create some kind of impartial forum to discuss what is actually happening, the results might well prove disastrous. 

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