Mismanagement by the US banks caused the 2008 financial crisis and plunged the whole world into a deep recession and over the last 10 years, Americans have learnt nothing.

Murray Gunn, chief of global research at Elliott Wave International, told the Post, “We think the major economies are on the cusp of turning into the worst recessions we have seen in 10 years. Should the [U.S.] economy start to shrink, and our analysis suggests that it will, the high nominal levels of debt will instantly become a very big issue.”

Experts cautioned that several economic markers had gotten much worse over the past decade, especially in regard to borrowed money. The U.S. household debt of $13.3 trillion is now far worse than it was during its 2008 peak, due primarily to mortgage lending.

Outstanding student loan debts have simultaneously increased from $611 billion of unpaid debt in 2008 to more than $1.5 trillion today. Automobile loans have far exceeded their 2008 peaks, sitting at about $1.25 trillion today, and unpaid credit card balances are just as high as the years leading up to the Great Recession.

Source: Newsweek

The numbers are truly staggering, when (not if) this bubble bursts the US is going to drag the rest of the world down with it.