Households may be two-thirds the way through the necessary deleveraging process. What’s more, a larger proportion of the remaining deleveraging will be achieved by incomes growing rather than debt falling. So although the shackles constraining consumption are unlikely to come off until the start of 2015, they are at least loosening.
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