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Category: Consumer Debt

Consumer Debt on the Rise

Consumer Debt Shows Remarkable Resilience

Posted on: February 10, 2025 February 10, 2025 Written by: BauerFinancial
Aggregate household debt is quickly approaching the $18 trillion mark, with balances $3.8 trillion higher today than just before the pandemic. While the majority of that increase falls into mortgage categories, roughly $65 billion was incurred via non-housing related consumer…
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Total Household Debt Increased $109 Billion

Posted on: September 30, 2024 September 30, 2024 Written by: BauerFinancial
Since the end of 2019 (before the pandemic recession), household debt has increased by $3.7 trillion (28.4%). Even more disturbing is how much of this debt is beginning to falter. Credit card delinquencies are flirting with the 11% mark for…
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U.S. Credit Card Debt Surpasses $1 Trillion

Posted on: September 25, 2023 September 25, 2023 Written by: BauerFinancial
Household Debt in the United States has increased 53% in the past 10 years and consumers are becoming less optimistic about their financial futures. There are 53 banks that saw their consumer loan portfolios grow at least 2.5% during the…
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Consumer Debt on the Rise

How Consumers are Coping with Higher Rates

Posted on: July 10, 2023 July 11, 2023 Written by: BauerFinancial
What a difference a year makes, both in attitudes and in numbers. TransUnion®’s Second Quarter 2023 Consumer Pulse Study reports that 57% of Americans are optimistic when it comes to their household finances over the next year. That number, however,…
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Non-Housing Consumer Debt

Non-Housing Debt Up $24 Billion in Q1’23

Posted on: May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 Written by: BauerFinancial
Credit card balances generally drop during the first quarter as consumers pay down what they spent during the holidays. But not this year. According to The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, credit…
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Credit Card Debt on the Rise

What is in Your Wallet Can Cost a Small Fortune

Posted on: January 30, 2023 January 30, 2023 Written by: BauerFinancial
According to WalletHub, the average credit card rate for new offers is now over 21%. Store Card rates are trending even higher, with some as high as 30%! Yet, after paying down credit cards during the worst of COVID, consumers…
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Control Your Debt Before It Controls You

Posted on: November 7, 2022 November 7, 2022 Written by: BauerFinancial
As we watch with contentment as CD rates continue to rise,  we know there is also an unmistakable down-side to the Federal Reserve’s persistent rate increases. If it hasn’t already, it will soon be making its debut in a wallet…
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U.S. Consumers May be Nearing a Tipping Point

Posted on: September 23, 2022 September 23, 2022 Written by: BauerFinancial
Coral Gables, Florida, September 21, 2022:  BauerFinancial, Inc., the nation’s premier Bank and Credit Union rating firm, sheds light on the fact that early-stage consumer delinquencies are beginning to head up. While the more severe delinquent loans are holding at…
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The (Mortgage Refinancing) Party is Over

Posted on: June 27, 2022 October 16, 2023 Written by: BauerFinancial
With a 1.5% increase in short-term interest rates in a three month period, the mortgage refinancing party is effectively over. Yet, total household debt (including mortgage loans) increased by $266 billion in the first quarter 2022. Balances, now at $15.84…
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Can Consumer Loans Withstand Rate Rises?

Posted on: June 13, 2022 June 15, 2022 Written by: BauerFinancial
We had hoped to have credit union data and star-ratings available this week, but the NCUA made so many changes to the reporting this quarter, the data didn’t come out until Tuesday (June 7th). So while our analysts comb over…
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