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Marc Faber, Editor & Publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report says China's pace of growth depends on whether authorities can deflate the nation's massive credit bubble.
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CNBC's Steve Liesman reports on trends in household wealth from 2005 to 2012.
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Are student loans the new subprime? There's about $1 trillion worth outstanding, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.
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Add the 16 percent who say they have neither credit card debt nor savings, and 40 percent of the population says they are close to the edge of ruin.
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Most homeowners use personal savings to pay for renovations, but borrowing makes sense when the updates will pay you back.
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The Federal Trade Commission put out a damning report on the three major consumer credit reporting agencies. Steve Wagner, Experian U.S. Credit Bureau president, responds.
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Moody's has downgraded the U.K. credit rating to AA1 from AAA with a stable outlook, reports CNBC's Josh Lipton.
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Frederic Neumann, MD & Co-Head of Asian Economics Research at HSBC, sounds a warning over Asian growth being increasingly driven by increases in credit.
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The number of homeowners behind on their mortgages has now fallen to the lowest rate in four years.
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Five percent of U.S. consumers have an error on their credit report that "could lead to them paying more for products such as auto loans and insurance," the Federal Trade Commission said Monday, as it issued a long-awaited study of credit report accuracy.
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Nearly 11 million borrowers are underwater on their mortgages, and yet home equity lines of credit are suddenly on the rise again.
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Bill Gross, Co-CIO, Founder & Managing Director of PIMCO, provides his perspective on bonds, the run in equities, and America's credit bubble.
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CNBC's Gary Kaminsky offers insight on his interview with real estate investor Sam Zell; and Eric Grubman of the NFL, says there is a "tremendous amount of interest" in Sunday's Super Bowl game.
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A mortgage analyst says, "The thought is that there are a bunch of homeowners on the fence who haven't refi'd who will all jump in thinking they will miss out. The theory is 100 percent nonsense."
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Brian Reynolds, chief market strategist, at Rosenblatt Securities, says January's record month for corporate bond issuance heralds a boom.
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A new study on student loans offers more evidence of the financial squeeze facing recent college graduates. But nearly as striking is the company behind the study: TransUnion.
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Paul Krake, Founder, View from the Peak: Macro Strategies warns of a credit crisis in China. He says the composition of growth is skewed and reforms aren't taking place quickly enough.
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David Ratliff, Head of Investor Sales & Relationship Management, Citi Asia Pacific says real demand will drive an economic recovery this year and this might see investments go into credit and high yield.
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A look at brand new checkout fees Visa and MasterCard users could be facing, with CNBC's Kayla Tausche. Courtney Reagan says retailers understand additional charges will not make consumers happy.
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The spread between low interest rates and the money real estate generates is "truly astonishing," Starwood Capital CEO Barry Sternlicht told CNBC.