From Subprime to Superprime

Comparing pandemic-era borrowers to those in 2003-06

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Americans have taken on almost $3 trillion more debt since the start of 2020. We haven’t seen this pace of debt growth in 15 years. Eighty-five cents on every dollar of pandemic borrowing was mor…