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What Drives Household Debt?

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  • Juan M. Sanchez
  • Lijun Zhu

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Reduced credit creation, and not increased credit destruction, has been the key driver of the recent evolution of U.S. household debt.

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  • Juan M. Sanchez & Lijun Zhu, 2015. "What Drives Household Debt?," Economic Synopses, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue 22.
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