Federal Reserve G.19 Report
Consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 10-1/2 percent in July 2009.
Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 8 percent, and
nonrevolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 11-3/4 percent.
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994