According to the Federal Reserve Board, the average American household spent 14.35 percent of its income to pay off consumer and mortgage loans during the first three months of the year (2001). That figure is the second highest ever, just below the 14.38 percent for the 4th quarter of 1986, since the Fed began this data series in 1980.
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