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Consumer Borrowing Dropped $7.9 Billion In November

Consumer Borrowing Dropped $7.9 Billion In November

“Consumers have clammed up,” said Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics LLC in Pepper Pike, Ohio, who forecast a decline. “The reduction in consumer credit doesn’t stop here, and will spill over into 2009. Households are bolstering their balance sheets.”