The above chart shows the cumulative increase in outstanding debt for the domestic nonfinancial sector and domestic financial sector since 1980. This is just another view of the huge leverage that the U.S. financial sector took on over the past few decades.
Last week a reader asked if I could show this type of data relative to GDP. I will do that in tomorrow’s post.
Data source
U.S. Federal Reserve - Flow of Funds report
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