Showing posts with label Debt crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debt crisis. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2020

12/6/20: American Love Affair with Debt: Part 2: Leverage Risk

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I have earlier updated the data on the total real private economic debt in the U.S. as of the end of 1Q 2020 here:  https://trueeconomics....

12/6/20: American Love Affair With Debt: Pre-COVID Saga

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Latest data for debt levels at the U.S. non-financial businesses and households (including non-profits) is out this week. So here are the ...
Monday, March 9, 2020

9/3/20: Beware the Endlessly Inflating Global Debt Bubble

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My latest article for Manning Financial on the global debt overload is available here:  https://issuu.com/publicationire/docs/mf_spring_20...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

8/3/20: Global Economy's Titanic: Meet Your Iceberg

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Here's that iceberg that is drifting toward our economy's Titanic... and no, it ain't a virus, but it is our choice: Via: ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

14/7/18: Elephants. China Shop, Enters a Mouse: Global Debt Bubble

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Bank for International Settlements Annual Report for 2018 has a very interesting set of charts covering the growing global debt bubble, on...
Monday, January 22, 2018

21/1/18: FT Warns on Credit Cards Delinquencies: High or Hype?

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The FT are reporting a 20% rise in credit cards delinquencies across major U.S. banks in 2016, compared to 2017 (see here:  https://www.ft...

21/1/18: Student Loans Debt Crisis: It Only Gets Worse

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A new research from the Brookings Institution has shed some light on the exploding student debt crisis in the U.S. The numbers are horrify...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

20/7/17: Euro Area's Great non-Deleveraging

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A neat data summary for the European 'real economic debt' dynamics since 2006: In the nutshell, the Euro area recovery: Gov...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

17/07/17: Debt Relief v Payments Relief: A Lesson Ireland Should Have Learned

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An interesting study looked into two sets of debt relief measures: Immediate payment reductions to target short-run liquidity constrain...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

21/6/17: BusinessInsider: The Most Important Charts in the World

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My contribution to the BusinessInsider  "The most important charts in the world from the brightest minds on Wall Street" is out....
Monday, May 22, 2017

21/5/17: Student Loans Debt: The Bubble is Still Inflating

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Having covered the latest news on the U.S. household debt continued explosion (see http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/05/19517-us-hous...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

18/7/17: Greece in Recession. Again.

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Per recent data release, Greece is now back in an official recession, with 1Q 2017 growth coming in at -0.1%, following 4Q 2016 contracti...
Monday, February 20, 2017

20/2/17: The Effect of GFC on Italian Non-Performing Loans Overhang

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In yesterday’s post I covered some interesting current numbers relating to NPLs in the European banking sector. And sitting, subsequently,...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

17/1/17: Government Debt in the Age of Austerity

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The fact that the world is awash with debt is hard to dispute (see data here and here ), but it is quite commonly argued that the aggress...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

17/9/16: The Mudslide Cometh for Your Ladder

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One chart that really says it all when it comes to the fortunes of the Euro area economy: And, courtesy of these monetary acrobatics,...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

2/9/16: Does bank competition reduce cost of credit?

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In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, there has been quite a debate about the virtues and the peril of competitive pressures in the ...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

12/6/16: U.S. Student Loans: A Ticking Time Bomb

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If you like hokey stick charts, you’ll love these two covering U.S. student loans debt evolution over time: The numbers are simply ma...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

10/5/16: Debt, Government Debt, Glorious Debt

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It's a simple headline, really, for a single chart: But it says so much... peace time and monetary financing and printing presses a...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

7/5/16: Households Over-Indebtedness in the Euro Area

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An interesting assessment of Italian household debt levels in the context of over-indebtedness by D'Alessio, Giovanni and Iezzi, Stefa...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

4/5/16: Canaries of Growth are Off to Disneyland of Debt

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Kids and kiddies, the train has arrived. Next stop: that Disneyland of Financialized Growth Model where debt is free and debt is never too...