The Debt Indulgence.

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  • Author(s): Brooks, David
  • Source:
    New York Times. 6/5/2012, Vol. 161 Issue 55793, p23. 0p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      DEBT; RECESSIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; OPPORTUNISM (Political science); MORTGAGES
    • Abstract:
      Every generation has an incentive to borrow money from the future to spend on itself. But, until ours, no generation of Americans has done it to the same extent. Why? A huge reason is that earlier generations were insecure. They lived without modern medicine, without modern technology and without modern welfare states. They lived one illness, one drought and one recession away from catastrophe. They developed a moral abhorrence about things like excessive debt, which would further magnify their vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]