Friday, December 31, 2010

Suicides in India Revealing How Men Made a Mess of Microcredit - Bloomberg

I fear very much that this type of thing that may start to happen in the United States as foreclosures continue and people are pressed into greater and greater desperation.

Suicides in India Revealing How Men Made a Mess of Microcredit - Bloomberg:

"More than 70 people committed suicide in the state from March 1 to Nov. 19 to escape payments or end the agonies their debt had triggered, according to the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, a government agency that compiled the data on the microfinance-related deaths from police and press reports."