You can thank the banks for the recession. Here in the USA banks love doling out credit. You can have no job and no income and get a credit card with a limit of $8000.
As a matter of fact my cousin who has no job has three cards with about $5000 limit on each one. A Credit Crisis is causing the recession. Also, lots of morons who are taking double mortgages on a house then they can't afford the monthly payments which end in foreclosure.
USA defaulting = buy now, pay later.