How Seriously Should Consumers Treat Debt?

Published on:
20 March 2012 at 06:48 a.m. ET

Written by: Mike Bevel –

http://www.insidearm.com/news/00038629-how-seriously-should-consumers-treat-debt/

Maybe today on your lunchbreak, you’ll take some time to read this very well-written Forbes.com blog by Alan Dunn on the Money Wise Woman: “Do We Take Debt Seriously Enough?”

Dunn mentions debtors’ prison and Charles Dickens — so I also feel okay suggesting that his piece makes a good companion to one we published on Forbes ourselves back in early February: “Debt and the Single Waif: Charles Dickens As American Debt Analog.”