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The general public expects to be able to find all of Moody's analysis and data? No. The "from Moody's" is the part that indicates this data is likely proprietary and inaccessible, as opposed to a government or university source like the Fed, or U.Mich consumer surveys.

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This is a really nitpicky thread when in my top comment I allowed for the possibility of private sources:

> If it truly cannot be linked because it is private, more context is still needed to understand what this data means.

Guess you skipped over the context provided in the preceding 13 paragraphs:

a sign that lower-income consumers’ financial health is waning

a closely watched measure of significant loan distress

but the bottom third of US consumers are tapped out

consumers’ personal finances are becoming increasingly stretched

Consumer spending power has been diminished

Americans who cannot pay off their credit card bills in full paying $170bn in interest

as a result, more of those borrowers are struggling to pay back their credit card debt

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