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Credit Creation Monitor

Saving vs. Borrowing: Who saves and who spends?


Non Financial Corporations

Growth of Bonds and Loans vs. Borrowing Rates

Current composition of the actual flow of funds

Bond Channel

Assessing the potential direction from here:

Loans Channel

From Financial Institutions

Point to an acceleration - though the bank channel seems weak

Private Credit Channel

This is capital raising of US BDC can be used as proxy of the whole market. This data is of Q3 2025.

Source Raymond James

Another possible method is Bloomberg US Loan Index’s market valuem


Households

Growth of Home Mortgages and Consumer Credit vs. Borrowing Rates### Households

Current State

From the H.8 release of the Federal Reserve, we can analyze household debt growth as a percentage of GDP. The frequency is monthly.

Mortgage

  • MBA US Purchase Index: Weekly index from the Mortgage Bankers Association measuring the volume of mortgage applications for home purchases; a leading indicator of housing demand and residential activity.

  • MBA US Refinance Index: Weekly MBA index measuring the volume of mortgage refinancing applications; primarily reflects households’ response to interest rate changes rather than underlying housing demand.

Consumer Credit

Can we nowcast changes in household borrowing using the Fed H8’s release?

and consumer loans?