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With age comes ... insecurity

Another reason for economic pessimism: Older Americans are more likely to file for bankruptcy than ever before.

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    A look at the stats the way they were...

    See http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data for what graphs of the economic stats would look like if they were computed the way they were pre-1982. It isn't pretty.

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