Tag Archives: Consumer Debt
Debt and Recovery Ten Years Later
Debt – actually too much debt – played a leading role in the 2008 financial crisis. A mortgage borrowing binge and a flood of mortgage backed securities set the stage for the collapse of Lehman Brothers and recession that followed. In the immediate aftermath almost every part of the economy went through a period of…
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Credit Cards and Retail Sales
This morning’s release of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices showed that default rates for bank cards – such as VISA, MasterCard or others – climbed year to date while other categories of consumer borrowing such as mortgages and auto loans did not. Even though the bank card rate at 3.11% is 61 basis points…
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