Post #1585 by WendyBG on the Macroeconomic Trends and Risks board

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Jeff wrote: It would be interesting to compare the debt/time curves to periods of finacial stress in the past.

Here you go. I don't think the situation looks bad. Unemployment is currently low. Consumers aren't carrying excessive debt, aren't carrying excessive debt relative to their disposable incomes and aren't defaulting at high rates.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1ofN0

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CDSP

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS

Wendy

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