http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/97-february-consumer-credit-student-and-car-loans
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2013 15:19 -0400
97% Of February Consumer Credit Is Student And Car Loans
The releveraging deleveraging continues. While US consumers barely dare to touch their credit cards, as they did in February when just $533 million in revolving consumer credit was added, they continue to take advantage of Federal largesse to take out student and car loans for the maximum amount possible, and as expected in February of the $18.1 billion in total credit taken out, a whopping 97% was non-revolving, or mostly student and GM loans (recall that now one can "finance" a carusing their shotgun as collateral). To show just how dramatic the shift toward Uncle Sam as bank of only recourse for the US consumer has become, consider that in the past 12 months, of the $158.8 billion in total consumer credit issued, just $6 billion is credit card based. The remainder: debt that will never be repaid because those who take it out use it to finance such things as their education in vocational school (and iPads, tattoos, lap dances, semiautomatic guns and booze of course), as well as various GM cars that amortise by about 100% the second they are driven off the car lot.
Spot the student and car loan components of total credit:
And guess who the biggest and really only net source of consumer credit has been in the past few years.
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