Savings are slumping (which means credit is surging) as the American consumer keeps on spending (+3.7% YoY near highest since May 2015) despite income growth at its slowest since Dec 2013 (+2.7% YoY). The diverging trend of the last 6 months (higher spending, lower income) is unlikely to last but with the savings rate at 5.3% (down from 6.2%)at March 2014 lows, we suspect the run way is running out.
Spending is all that matters of course, because debt is wealth in the new normal…
until Americans become fully Japanese’d.
via http://ift.tt/2aFAMTR Tyler Durden