FairAndUnbiased
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Pay attention in 2019 the household debt to disposable income ratio was 120% which means a majority of households were already over leveraged pre-COVID. COVID made it worse.
The question isn’t weather household debt is serviceable but its effects on disposable income ..less disposable income = less consumer spending.
But that's not an unusual ratio. Most mid to high income countries are at this level of debt or higher. In addition China has the retail spending per capita of some European countries (5k USD vs. 6.2k for UK)