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"Nearly Half Of US Consumers Report Their Incomes Don't Cover Their Expenses"; A Comment

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:25

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“Nearly Half Of US Consumers Report

Their Incomes Don’t Cover Their Expenses”

by Tyler Durden

“Low-income consumers are struggling to make ends meet despite the “greatest economy ever,” and if a recession strikes or the employment cycle continues to decelerate — this could mean the average American with insurmountable debts will likely fall behind on their debt servicing payments, according to a UBS report, first reported by Bloomberg.

UBS analyst Matthew Mish wrote in a recent report that 44% of consumers don’t make enough money to cover their expenses. The new survey asked 2,100 respondents in the US about their current financial situation, at least 40% of the respondents said they experienced a credit problem, if that was a rejection of a credit card or a missing payment, or perhaps defaulting on a balance that was due, this was a 3 percentage-point increase from last year, the survey found.

Mish has written before that lower-income consumers have seen very little net worth improvement in the last decade. They’ve increased their debt burdens significantly through credit cards, auto loans, and student debt.

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As the federal funds rate drops, consumers are being squeezed by record-high credit card rates. Given the high leverage of lower-income consumers, the next cyclical downshift in the consumer credit cycle could be much worse than the Dot Com bust, Mish noted in July.

Mish writes in the current report that there are no signs, as of yet, of an imminent downturn in the consumer credit cycle. “The analyst wrote that the UBS indicator that determines if consumer credit is turning stood at .10 through late September. High scores of the index are often associated with deteriorating consumer health, in 2001 and 2007 recessions, the indicator was approximately .70. ” Mish said in the last six months, only 17% of consumers reported an improvement in their financial well-being.

As we’ve noted in the last several months, successful transmission of weakness from a manufacturing recession has filtered into services and employment. This means that the economic slowdown in the US has already broadened, now affecting consumers, and will lead to waning consumer health in the late year – just in time for the holiday season. “The lower-income cohort led the deterioration, suggesting the lower-tier consumer remains under disproportionate pressure,” Mish wrote.

As the US economy cycles lower through 4Q, lower-income consumers are already coming under pressure. Already, the percentage of student loans that are 90 days or more delinquent has jumped from a year ago. Auto loan delinquencies remain elevated from last year. And it’s when the consumer shifts into a holding pattern, pulling back on all spending, that is when the broader economic downswing will be seen. A reminder, consumers account for 70% of US GDP.”

- https://www.zerohedge.com/
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A Comment: So… since 2009 the Fed’s “lent” (at .25% interest which will never be paid back) these ~~sons of bitches~~ criminals $5 TRILLION, and promises at least $60 billion per month more to buy back their own stock to support the “inflate or die” effort, because if prices drop the margin calls and derivatives claims will totally implode the entire global financial system. These figures are only “buy-back” numbers. Note that this doesn’t include the $23 TRILLION in “loans and guarantees” given these swine since 2009.

Meanwhile, the true unemployment rate for September, 2019 is 20.9%; over 40 million Americans live in literal poverty; 12,000 stores will have closed by year end, throwing their employees away; states are literally bankrupt in fact if not “legally”; we will officially spend $738 billion for “Defense” in Fiscal Year 2020, but it’s easily over a $TRILLION when supplemental programs are added. And on and on…

Anyone care to tell me how any of this makes sense at all,
because I sure as hell don’t see it… This is uncontrolled insanity.

- CP

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/10/nearly-half-of-us-consumers-report.html

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