http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-14/us-consumer-bankruptcies-jump-most-three-years-third-party-collections-all-time-high
Something funny happened on the road to the epic consumer balance sheet cleansing and subsequent releveraging (without which there can be noactual non-Fed sugar high fueled recovery): the second quarter. And specifically, as the Fed just disclosed in its quarterly Household Debt and Credit Report, the number of consumer bankruptcies during the second quarter, just jumped by 71K, to 380K from 309K in Q1, the biggest quarterly jump in precisely three years - on both an absolute and relative basis - and the most since the 158K jump recorded in Q2 2010. It appears that when the "releveraging" US consumer isn't busy buying stuff on credit, they are just as busy filing for bankruptcy. Healthy consumer-led recovery and all that.
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