Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-1959
Abstract
This report explores the rapid expansion of consumer credit in the United States and New Mexico, including credit cards, revolving credit plans, installment lending, consumer debt, and changing spending patterns during the postwar era. It also reviews New Mexico’s strong economic performance in 1959, highlighting employment growth, construction activity, and continued business expansion following the national recession of 1957-58.
Recommended Citation
University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research. New Mexico Business: A Monthly Review of Business Conditions in New Mexico, Vol. 12, No. 7, July 1959.