Friday, Aug 22, 2008

Still debt junkies ... and it's getting worse not better

Yahoo: Personal Debt exceeds Britain's GDP (again)

Stephen Gifford, Grant Thornton's chief economist, said: "[..]there is no cause for panic as personal debt is well covered by the UK housing stock'.
Great, so nothing to worry about there then.

Posted by montesquieu @ 03:23 AM (596 views) Add Comment

7 Comments

1. Noodlebike said...

So dont worry, we can all sell our houses at once to mystery buyers and pay back our personal debt and go and live in the woods.

Friday, August 22, 2008 07:04AM Report Comment
 

2. malct said...

http://www.creditaction.org.uk/debt-statistics.html

Friday, August 22, 2008 07:18AM Report Comment
 

3. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...

Covered by the housing stock? Now don't people need somewhere to live?

Friday, August 22, 2008 09:03AM Report Comment
 

4. cyril said...

so if the value of houses continues to go down much more, technically we are insolvent?

Friday, August 22, 2008 09:19AM Report Comment
 

5. renting2 said...

Unbelievably skewed thinking.

Friday, August 22, 2008 09:32AM Report Comment
 

6. enuii said...

So have we got a 110% mortgage on the UK or not yet?

Friday, August 22, 2008 10:08AM Report Comment
 

7. matt_the_hat said...

I can remember the hooharr when we broke the 1 trllion barrier not so long ago now, lets just slap another 44% on that.

Friday, August 22, 2008 11:16AM Report Comment
 

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