Another look at mortgage arrears

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From S&P rated RMBS this time:

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Up, certainly, but the East Coast trends are bloody impressive and mining states don’t even look terribly distressed:

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Even mining areas have seen worse:

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Clearly the cycle is yet to turn.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.