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    The Bankruptcy Decade: 10 Years of Failure (Infographic)

    Americans set a bankruptcy record between January 2000 and December 2009 with 13,363,085 personal bankruptcy petitions. In a decade of stock turmoil, corporate scandals, energy crises and housing bubbles left consumers helpless.

    Dennis Jensen
    by Dennis Jensen

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