Things are looking up too! Bernanke is. | O'nomics
Watch our related post on how we have the snowmobile working to clear the c’congested’ road out to work..(TARP)
Well, all we needed to get on the road was pleasant musical carols singing we have cut down the debt..people almost rose to the occassion, refusing to pull out credit cards, but consumer credit overall is up with spending on cars and other personal loans..mortgages haven’t really taken off yet only the superbargain homes being bought up at less than $100k from foreclosures..Out here in the emerging markets, you can’t get easy credit for more than one home per family too and that might still be something to do for Bernanke ( if he makes it!)
October consumer credit outstanding fell at a 1.69 percent annual rate to $2.48 trillion. September’s figures were revised to show a $8.77 billion drop, previously reported as a $14.8 billion fall.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast consumer credit dropping by $9.5 billion in October. Consumer credit has now declined for nine straight months.
Confronted with the worst labor market in 26 years, consumers have been reluctant to spend, raising doubts that the fragile economic recovery might falter once the stimulus from government spending runs out.
“Households are still in the process of deleveraging. They are increasing spending, but its coming out of the savings they have accumulated during the recession,” said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at The Economic Outlook Group in Princeton, New Jersey.
“They are not acquiring new debt. We need to have consumers ramp up their spending if this economy is to continue to grow through 2010.”
Nonrevolving credit, which includes closed-end loans for big-ticket items such as cars, boats, college education and holidays, rose $3.44 billion, or at a 2.59 percent annual rate, to $1.59 trillion.
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