8/7/09

The consumer is in trouble


The Federal Reserve said today that U.S. consumers cut their debt for the fifth straight month in June, putting more into their bank accounts and less onto their credit cards.

Consumer debt in June dropped nearly 5 percent to $2.5 trillion (click on the chart to enlarge). This marks the longest pullback in consumer credit since the second half of 1991.

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