My feeble attempts to understand the impact that debt has on the real economy as debt payments (aka "the suck") grow so large that the economy can't sustain them anymore. Like now.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

A Partial List of Flows

I am starting to add up the flows in and out of the "real economy", which is represented by the line between consumers and enterprises in my diagram of suckage.

Out -> Principal and interest payments on:

Home mortgages
Home equity lines of credit
Revolving consumer debt
Non-revolving consumer debt
Commerical mortgages
Corporate bonds
C&I loans

In <- New borrowing

New home loans (but not existing, because that typically just swaps one loan for another)
Mortgage equity withdrawal
Credit card balance increases
New non-revolving loans
New commercial loans
New bond offerings
C&I balance increases