Outstanding receivables from consumer and commercial products tied to American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa general purpose credit cards issued in the U.S. reached $932.85 billion at the end of 2021, an increase of 7.7% from year-end 2020. This amounted to growth of $66.56 billion in outstandings above the $866.29 billion the prior year. In 2001, general purpose credit card outstandings were $618.80 billion. Ten years later, outstandings were $713.50 billion. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over those 10 years was 1.4%. In the 10 years since 2011, the CAGR in outstandings w...