The share of credit card debt that is delinquent 90+ days reached 12.3% in Q2 2025, the highest since Q2 2011.
This is just 1.4 percentage points below the all-time high.
Furthermore, 5.0% of auto loans are now seriously delinquent, only 0.3 percentage points below the record set in Q4 2010.
Meanwhile, student loan serious delinquencies spiked 9.4 percentage points over the last 2 quarters to 10.2%, the highest since Q1 2020.
US consumers are falling behind on debt payments at rates rarely seen before.
US serious delinquencies are skyrocketing:
The share of credit card debt that is delinquent 90+ days reached 12.3% in Q2 2025, the highest since Q2 2011.
This is just 1.4 percentage points below the all-time high.
Furthermore, 5.0% of auto loans are now seriously delinquent,… pic.twitter.com/MZobIjR4md
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Banks are sitting on $500 billion in unrealized losses, and stagflation could cause another Silicon Valley Bank-like crisis
https://fortune.com/2025/05/14/banks-500-billion-unrealized-losses-stagflation-svb-crisis/