http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 20:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/is-household-deleveraging-bad-for-growth/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/is-household-deleveraging-bad-for-growth/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:39:42 +0000 Ben Chu http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25718 The British public, in aggregate, paid down existing mortgages over the month, rather than taking on new home borrowing. Does this matter for the wider economy? Interesting the OBR suggested in March that it does not. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/is-household-deleveraging-bad-for-growth/feed/ 1