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Marie Marie

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7. More and more people are putting the essentials on a credit card and at the

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Sun May 31, 2026, 05:12 PM

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ridiculous interest rates they are allowed to charge, the banks are happy and the Americans are locked in an endless loop of more payback debt. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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