Deleveraging

Americans May Be Getting Back Into A Pre-Recession Habit

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Video, Credit-Card-Spending, Consumer Borrowing, Consumer Credit December 2011, U.S. Consumer Debt, Consumer Credit, Business News, Deleveraging, Economic Recovery, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — Americans are feeling confident enough in the economy to go back to a time-honored tradition – taking on a little extra debt....

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After Post-Recession Slowdown, Credit Card Use Ticking Back Up

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Consumer-Deleveraging, Video, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Credit Card Purchases, Business News, Personal Savings Rate, The Great Recession, Credit Card Spending, Credit Card Use, Deleveraging, Credit Cards, Balance Transfer Day, Business News

Many Americans might be confused by the rules and terms of their credit cards, but they're more often opting to swipe anyway. Credit card purchases...

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Meanwhile, Back at the Economy...

Jared Bernstein | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, US Employment, Housing Market, US Grp, Unemployment, Gdp, Housing, Employment, Deleveraging, Housing Crisis, Gdp Growth, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Jared Bernstein

I know we're all up to our necks in the spectacle of the Republican candidate debates and the last gasps of the super committee, but it's the job market that matters most -- and not just jobs, but earnings.

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The Danger Zone: Financial Stability Risks Soar

José Viñals | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Capital Buffers, Financial Stability Risk, Sovereign Risks, Bank Balance Sheets, International Monetary Fund, Credit Risk, Global Financial Stability Report, Sovereign and Financial Balance Sheets, Imf, Deleveraging, Weak Balance Sheets, Household Balance Sheets, Financial Danger Zone, Balance Sheet Repair, Global Financial System, Imfdirect, Confidence, Video, Business News
José Viñals

Several shocks have recently buffeted the global financial system: unequivocal signs of a broader global economic slowdown; fresh market turbulence in the euro area; and the credit downgrade of the United States.

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What's Great for the American Consumer Is Bad for Our Nation's Economy

Pamela Yellen | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Dow Jones Newswires, Deleveraging, Credit Card Debt, A Do-It-Yourself Fix for the Economy - Deficit - Social Security and Unemployment, Better Than Debt Free, U.S. Consumer Debt, Transunion, U.S. Gross Domestic Product, Business News
Pamela Yellen

While our leaders in Washington pay little more than lip service to the need to reduce our nation's debt addiction, Americans by the millions are working harder than anytime in the past 40 years to live within their means.

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American Jobs and Chinese Freedom

Charles Kolb | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Deleveraging, Renminbi, Jobless Recovery, China, Great Recession, Business News
Charles Kolb

American consumers can help their fellow citizens and our friends in China in their purchasing decisions. A former American president once urged all Americans to "go shopping." When we do, we should try whenever possible to buy American.

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Pity the Policymaker

Mohamed A. El-Erian | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Japan Economy, Deleveraging the Economy, Deleveraging, Europe Economy, US Federal Reserve, US Economy, Fiscal Policy, Foreign Policy, World News
Mohamed A. El-Erian

Six important issues speak to the problem for policymakers in Europe, the US, and Japan. First, all three economic areas are struggling with unsettling de-leveraging dynamics.

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Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Exploring the Post-tornado Contours of the Financial System

Laura Kodres | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Multilateral Cooperation | Tagged: Macrofinancial Linkages, Systemic Collapse, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Financial Sector Supervision, Economic Crisis, Imf, Deleveraging, Financial System Risk, Leverage, Financial Sector Reform, Emerging Markets, Financial Regulation, Financial Supervision, Advanced Economies, Banks, Global Financial System, Nonbanks, Systemic Risk, Contagion, Macroprudential Regulation, Financial Crisis, Business News
Laura Kodres

Just as a tornado in Kansas transplanted Dorothy and, her dog, Toto, from familiar comforts to the unknown land of Oz, the global crisis has led many ...

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The Value(s) of Wall Street

Charles Kolb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CEO Pay, Quarterly Earnings, Energy Independence, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Lee Scott, Michael Lewis, Deleveraging, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Indra Nooyi, Jeff Immelt, Business News
Charles Kolb

The day when the Federal Reserve began to lower interest rates to address a looming economic downturn, the New York Times ran a Tiffany & Co. ad on page three. The ad featured a lovely pair of diamond teardrop earrings for $230,000.

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How Americans Are Drastically Reducing Their Debt: Mint.com (CHART)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the economy emerges from the downturn, consumers are likely to spend the next several years drastically reducing their debt -- at least if historic...

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Second Great Depression Still Possible: The Financial Times

ft.com | Thomas Palley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Second Great Depression, Economy, Deleveraging, Recession, Business News

Over the past year the global economy has experienced a massive contraction, the deepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But this spring, eco...

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