Consumer Credit – Borrowers go all in

by SpontaneousDisorder Interesting to compare the current cycle to before the financial crisis. Consumers have been going crazy by this measure. The recent increase mirrors the excitement we’re seeing in financial markets (stocks, bitcoin etc). Probably the final months of …

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Investor credit balances – "To say that investors are “all in” would be an understatement here. They’re leveraged to the gills."

Hussman posted this chart in his latest blog. https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170717.htm Speaking of margin debt, Doug Short recently provided this look at investor credit balances and the equity market. The bars (green when positive, red when negative) show the sum of: cash …

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