Biden's student-loan defeat may hasten US economic slowdown

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The U.S. Supreme Court's striking down of President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan puts nearly half a trillion dollars of debt back on household balance sheets, a burden that combined with the end of a pandemic-era pause in payments on education loans may hasten an anticipated year-end economic slowdown.

on Friday, which had been widely expected to go against Biden, comes just weeks after the White House and congressional Republicans struck a deal to lift the federal debt ceiling that included prohibiting any further extensions of the student debt payment hiatus put in place in early 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Education Department last week saidThat means U.S. households who collectively owe $1.

But questions remain about the resilience of consumer spending, a key driver of economic growth, especially with the prospect of more rate rises remaining on the table. Economists at Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, predict that reimposing loan repayments will have a tangible - but modest - impact on growth in the closing months of the year. Unlike Jefferies, the bank does not see a U.S. recession, but agrees personal expenditures will take a hit and the nation's gross domestic product growth is likely to be between 6 and 9 basis points lower than it would otherwise be.

 

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