Sunday, May 17, 2009

Personal Credit Crisis

Count yourself lucky if you've no debt related problems. But regardless of what your financial sitation may be, you'd still find this personal account of a credit crisis both chilling and illuminating.

You'll see just how slippery a slope the debt spiral can be. More importantly, how one can go from being financially sound to being avalanched by a mountain of debt in a short period of time.

Awareness of the onerous terms that creditors were seeking proved to an inadequate defence. The writer, believe it or not, is a financial journalist who had written about sub-prime mortgages. One emotional slip was all it took for the misery to follow.

The price of financial independence? Eternal vigilance.

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