Friday, June 8, 2012

Total Credit Market Debt Owed Growth (Musical Tribute)


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The chart shows the annual growth in total credit market debt owed. It includes everything. What the government giveth, the private market taketh away.


Green grass and high tides forever

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Total Credit Market Debt Owed

4 comments:

  1. I prefer less TBTF:

    http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=7SM

    since this shows that TBTF levered up in the 1990s and has been leveraging down after the crash:

    http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TCMDODFS

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  2. Troy,

    I prefer less TBTF

    Wouldn't we all. Sigh.

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  3. WTH was 2004

    I'm reminded of the mortgage offers that flooded my mailbox.

    That was the year I turned permabearish.

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