Debt-Heavy Economy May Be Too Jittery About Rates. Despite market jitters, most economists are quite sanguine that rising interest rates would not pose a significant danger to the recovery. By Eduardo Porter. [New York Times: Business]

"Since 1999, household debt has risen from 70 percent, to nearly 83 percent of the gross domestic product, the total value of the goods and services produced in the nation."
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