Who has all these credit cards?

It’s been corrected now, but Reuters had an amusing error in this article:

In 2007, Americans were using an estimated 694.4 billion credit cards with Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover logos, according to the Card Industry Directory.

Considering the population of 300 million, that would be more than 2,000 cards per person!

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