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New York (Wall Street Journal) — Inflation is at a four-decade high, and a recession could be near. Credit-card issuers aren’t worried: They are aggressively courting new customers and trying to increase credit-card balances. Comperemedia analysts provided data for the below charts in the article.

Source: Comperemedia

Source: Comperemedia

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