How Are U.S. Household Finances Doing?

The Federal Reserve conducts its Survey of Consumer Finances once every three years. It’s like the Olympics or World Cup for econ and finance nerds like me. The latest results were released a few weeks ago. Let’s run through some charts to look at trends in household financial data.1 First up, here is median income data: That valley coming out of the Great Financial Crisis was painful. Even after adjusting fo...