“Debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors is estimated to have expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4¾ percent in the second quarter of 2010, ¼ percentage point more than in the previous quarter. Private debt declined again in the second quarter, while federal government debt continued to grow rapidly. Household debt contracted at an annual rate of 2¼ percent in the second quarter, the ninth consecutive quarterly decline. Home mortgage debt fell at an annual rate of 2¼ percent, compared with a 4¼ percent drop in the previous quarter. Consumer credit contracted at an annual rate of 2½ percent in the second quarter, about ½ percentage point more than the decline posted in the first quarter…Federal government debt increased at an annual rate of about 24 percent in the second quarter, four percentage points faster than in the previous quarter. At the end of the second quarter of 2010, the level of domestic nonfinancial debt outstanding was $35.5 trillion; household debt was $13.5 trillion, nonfinancial business debt was $10.9 trillion, and total government debt was $11.1 trillion. Household net worththe difference between the value of assets and liabilitieswas an estimated $53.5 trillion at the end of the second quarter, down $1.5 trillion from the end of the previous quarter…”
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