US Households

Bankruptcy Petitions (nonbusiness) 1980-98IV Credit Card $34bil paydown via new '98 mortgages Household Debt and Delinquences, 1997 Stuart Feldstein on Consumer Credit Mortgage Defaults Bankruptcies Dismal Scientist Oct 97 Bankruptcies American Bankruptcy Institute US Household and Corporate Debt 1952-2001QI Consumer Installment Credit/Personal Income

Delinquent Non-tax Debt to US Federal government rose from $51bil in fiscal 97 to $60bil in fiscal '98
FDIC:
Annual Charge-offs of Savings Institutions
Non Current Loans and Leases
Interest as part of Govt Budgets Martin Armstrong 11/98
Interest vs Corporate Profits
Babson on '28-29 by Curtiss Priest
Yardeni's graphs of the Fed's Flow of Funds data.
Margin Debt/GDP from NYT
US Bankruptcy Legislation March 2000
Filings 1980-97
US Stats
S&P: 99 Record Year
Brief History of US Bankruptcy Laws
Further History with long-term HH Charts
In an NYT's (2/4/01) article that does not refer to "debt" Robert Shiller argues that

"A great embarrassment for modern macroeconomic theory is that it has never achieved any consensus on the basic questions of ... what ultimately causes recessions. ...we are in a moment when confidence and market psychology are changing fast. Surprises -- perhaps a serious recession -- could be in store for us."

Gold, Debt and the Great Depression
by Don Roper (250K pdf)

Social Security:
Decades of 'Full Funding' Assures Future Inflation

• Country-Debt Pages

  Indonesia Africa Argentina Default Around the Corner 6oct01 WP Russia

• Jubilee or Debt Forgiveness Movement

  Third World Debt Forum Debtor's Cartel Jubilee Plus Drop the Debt Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative

• Moody's on International Corporate defaults in 2000II
• Exchange Rate Policies and External Debt Levels
  
• Guardian on International Debt
• Fitch: Soverign Debt Rating Press Releases
  
• Sustainability of International Debt
• Asian crisis bailout nos

• UK	Insolvencies--2000.Q1 Insolvencies 1992-2001.Q1 Overindebtedness and the Fine Print

• Latin America
  • Mexico: Christopher Whalen
  • Hyperinflation in the Southern Cone
  • Brazil's Public Debt 2/99
  • Brazil's Foreign Debt
  • Brazil's '98 Crisis by Eiji Hosomi

• Africa:

  Ivory Coast South Africa: Apartheid Debt Jubilee South Africa

• China:

  Debt Collection after oct98 GITIC default Debt covered by international reserves

• Indonesia: Default or Another Dictatorship

• Japan:

  Chart 1990-99 corporate defaults

• Albania's Pyramid Scheme
  
• Bibliography on International Debt '93

• Debt Relief Movements
  • BBC on debt relief
  • Debt Relief   from www.oneworld.org
  • IMF/WB use of debt to redistribute wealth
  • Odious Debts
  • Jubilee 2000
  • Catholic Workers Movement

• BIS-OECD-IMF-WB recent country debt series
• South Sea Bubble
• Tulip Mania
• The Mississippi Scheme