Posted by Sam Fenny - Memes and headline comments by David Icke Posted on 9 June 2022

Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: Everyone Maxing Out Their Credit Card Ahead Of The Recession

While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade economic indicator, the April consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was another shocker especially after last month’s stunning surge in credit card debt that saw the biggest increase in revolving credit on record, which is why we said that today’s G.19 print straight from the Fed would be just as important as Friday’s CPI print…

 

… and sure enough it was, while again confirming what we have been saying for month: any excess savings accumulated by the US middle class are long gone, and in their place Americans have unleashed a credit-card-fueled spending spree.

Here are the shocking numbers: in April one month after the jarring March print again came in more than double the $25 billion expected to $52.435 billion, in April consumer credit again exploded to a ridiculous $38.1 billion, again blowing away expectations of a $35 billion increase (and not much lower than last month’s downward revised $47.3 billion).

And while non-revolving credit (student and car loans) rose by a relatively pedestrian 21.1 billion (which was still the 6th highest on record)…

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