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Have households fixed their balance sheets?

Households have done the bulk of the work in repairing their balance sheets, but we don’t think that they are quite there yet. Household debt as a share of income probably has a bit further to fall, which may prevent the consumer recovery from gaining too much momentum in the near-term.

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