[lbo-talk] Goodbye to the export of surplus capital?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 7 09:55:00 PST 2011


On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:37 PM, brad wrote:


> The
> correlation of the two series suggests that the dramatic run-up in
> household debt relative to income was largely driven by an increase in
> the supply of credit over time.

Exactly. And it also explains the long decline in the savings rate that the SF Fed paper modeled.

Doug



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