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cinjenice su sledece (podaci su sa Bankrate.com za 2004 godinu i izvinjavam se sto su na engleskom):
* A typical credit card purchase ends up costing 112 percent more than if cash were used.
* A $1,000 charge on an average credit card will take almost 22 years to pay, and will cost more than $2,300 in interest ($3,300 total) -- if only 2 percent minimum payments are made.
* There are roughly 1.2 billion credit cards in use in the United States.
* The average interest rate on credit cards is 18.9 percent.
* A typical American family today pays about $1,200 annually in credit card interest.
* Last year the credit card industry took in $43 billion in card fees.
* Average per household debt in the U.S., not counting mortgage debt, is about $14,500
* Average card debt among people who have at least one card is $9,205 -- triple what it was in 1990.
* The average graduate student has six credit cards and one in seven owes more than $15,000.
* Some 1.6 million U.S. households -- one of every 73 -- filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
* Today roughly 24 percent of personal expenditures in this country are made with credit and debit cards.
* Some 40 percent of American families annually spend more than they earn.
* About 60 percent of active credit card accounts are not paid off monthly.
* Average credit card debt among all American households is $8,400.
* Twenty-three percent of Americans admit to maxing out a credit card.
* Thirteen percent of Americans have been 30 days late paying credit card bills in the past year.
* People using credit cards in fast food restaurants spend up to 50 percent more than when they pay cash.
* The personal savings rate in the United States has dropped from 8 percent in the 1980s to just under 2 percent since 2000.
* Average health care debt: $25,000. Typical scenario: pricey prescriptions bought on high-interest credit cards.
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