Source: Finance and Development, IMF 

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Consumers have been cutting down borrowing since the credit crunch began. However the Federal government borrowing has been growing at a staggering rate recently as the chart from CFR’s Brad Setser’s blog shows below. Source: Council on Foreign Relations Checkout also More on the fall in private borrowing and the rise in the fiscal defict.

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Source:  IMF, Finance and Development