December 2020 Consumer Credit Growth Slows, Literally No Growth In 2020 Headline consumer credit barely expanded in December and was well below expectations. Our analysis of the unadjusted data shows annual growth continues barely in expansion year-over-year. Analyst Opinion of the Consumer Credit Situation Student loan year-over-year growth rate marginally declined and remains in an overall slowing trend. Not only does this data set suffer from backward revision (at times moderate to significant enough to change trends -, but the use of compounding (projecting monthly change as annual change...