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Just Released: Household Debt Balances Increase as Deleveraging Period Concludes
Abstract: The New York Fed released the Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the third quarter of 2014 today. Balances continued to rise slightly, with an overall increase of $78 billion. The aggregate household debt balance now stands at $11.71 trillion, up 0.7 percent from the previous quarter, but still well below the peak of $12.68 trillion in the third quarter of 2008.
Keywords: Defaults; Mortgages; Deleveraging; Consumer debt; Foreclosures;
JEL Classification: D1;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Part of Series: Liberty Street Economics
Publication Date: 2014-11-25
Number: 20141125