Figures 16.3 and 16.4 show household debt as a percentage of GDP and the personal saving rate.

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Figures 16.3 and 16.4 show household debt as a percentage of GDP and the personal saving rate. According to these graphs, the ratio of household debt to GDP in 2007, before the financial crisis took hold, was just under 100 percent. In the same year, the personal saving rate was 1.7 percent.
(a) Using the FRED database hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, obtain the latest values for these two statistics. How has the ratio of household debt to GDP changed since 2007? What about the personal saving rate? (Hint: search for the codes CMDEBT, GDP, and PSAVERT.)
(b) Discuss some possible explanations for these changes.
Figures 16.3
Figures 16.3 and 16.4 show household debt as a percentage

Figures 16.4

Figures 16.3 and 16.4 show household debt as a percentage
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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-0393923902

3rd edition

Authors: Charles I. Jones

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