On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Bill Lear wrote:

>> Actually household debt is about 120% of after-tax personal income - credit 
>> cards and the like around 20% and mortgages around 90% (with some other 
>> miscellaneous stuff thrown in). But just looking at that ignores the asset 
>> side, which is almost 620% of income, including 140% for residential real 
>> estate. 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the last sentence --- this is in reference
> to household assets?  I thought residential real estate would be a
> much larger portion of assets.  What accounts for the rest?  BTW, is
> this median or average?

Mean, so it's way skewed by the upper brackets, meaning their financial assets. 

Doug
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