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Credit crunch survival guide

Bank of England, City of London (Image © Matt Dunham/AP Photos)

Banks around the world have started writing off billions in bad debt and grown suspicious of lending to each other, making mortgages and loans more costly for consumers. This guide is dedicated to helping protect consumers from this and other wide-reaching implications of the "credit crunch".

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Further background

Credit crisis poll

Who's to blame for the world credit crisis?
1. Banks
  45%
2. Consumers
  9%
3. Regulators
  6%
4. Government
  40%

840 responses, not scientifically valid, results updated every minute.

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