Showing posts with label US household debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US household debt. 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 ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

26/3/20: Why "Families First Coronavirus Response Act" Can't Fix America

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I have written extensively about the fact that U.S. public has severely restricted access to healthcare and other basic services, primaril...
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...
Friday, January 19, 2018

19/1/18: Tears over QE & U.S. Household Debt Problem

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As (some) White House-linked (or favouring) economists lament the Fed's QE (and there are reasons to lament it), one thing is clear: t...
Friday, May 19, 2017

19/5/17: A Reminder: Social Security is Only Getting More Insolvent...

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On foot of my earlier post on U.S. household debt, it is worth mentioning another, much-overlooked in the media, fact concerning U.S. rea...
Friday, January 15, 2016

15/1/16: Household Debt Sustainability in One Chart?

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Here is a neat chart plotting household debt against long term interest rates in an attempt to visualise property prices in affordability ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

22/6/2012: Deleveraging of Households US v UK, Spain

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An interesting chart from McKinsey today updating deleveraging process for household debt in the US, Spain, and the UK: Nothing new h...