News: Warning: New Consumer Debt Numbers Are Scary
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George Gammon
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Hello, Robo capitals. Hope you're well. So breaking news, the consumer debt in the United States is skyrocketing. Now at all-time highs, |
| 0:10.0 | let's get right over the Wall Street Journal and take a deep dive, try to figure out what's going on here. |
| 0:15.7 | It's time to worry, or is it time to worry about consumer debt, what is going on in seven charts? |
| 0:22.2 | So now, keep in mind, this is not adjusted for inflation, but in |
| 0:26.4 | nominal terms consumer debt 1.03 trillion and now that cannot include mortgages. |
| 0:35.9 | Now, so yeah, there's no way that includes mortgages. |
| 0:38.2 | So I assume this is just credit cards, student loans, I don't even think that. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, that's just credit card balances. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, excuse me, my goodness, it's 10 times worse than I thought. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh my gosh. One. It's 10 times worse than I thought. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh my gosh, one trillion dollars in credit card balances. |
| 0:58.0 | Holy cow. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, let's get into the article here. |
| 1:02.0 | Consumers are still flush with cash. All right, let's get into the article here. |
| 1:02.5 | Consumers are still flush with cash. |
| 1:05.3 | That's from STEMIs and whatnot |
| 1:07.1 | and not having to pay back their student loan, |
| 1:08.8 | more on that just a moment. |
| 1:10.2 | But are more often falling behind on some payments making it a complex picture. |
| 1:14.8 | So first obviously they're showing this chart, the one that I use in the thumbnail, |
| 1:18.8 | to illustrate that, okay, consumer debt or credit card balances for |
| 1:24.3 | everyone's sake are at an all-time high is that good or bad |
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