Household debt among older Americans approaching retirement has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades … household survey data to examine how late life debt affects retirement decisions, we find that more indebted older adults are … debt among households in their 50s and 60s, in recent years, student loan debt has also risen among these households. Using …

financial consumer protection aimed at slowing down the growth of the mortgage market by introducing new recommendations to … restrict LTV limits and other indicators. Households are taking advantage of the availability of mortgage loans in an … systemic risk caused by the developing gap between the growth of household indebtedness and the growth in real estate prices …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … rich has been linked to the substantial dissaving and large accumulation of debt by the non-rich. Analysis using variation … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …