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To: yard_man who wrote (108628)	6/13/2001 7:47:19 PM
From: Mark Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Please, do sound off. Another item not included in Disposable Income, are investment gains. So comparing debt to DI ignores both a larger tax bite and phantom investment gains. My theory is the tax bite is a direct result of that phantom 'income' and Roth IRA conversions. I was poking around the econometric site, trying to find Mortgage debt so I could graph it against GDP, when I found this. economagic.com Series Title: Debt of Domestic Nonfinancial Sectors; consists of Outstanding Credit Market Debt of the Government and Private Nonfinancial Sectors; Billions of Dollars; NSA Now in his first chart, one of the lines says "Total Pvte" and NonFin, which would mean to me total private and Non Financial domestic debt. And the above would imply to me that Domestic Non Financial includes government debt. Maybe that's part of the missing data that makes it appear as the two following charts don't add up to the first. If we extract government debt, the graph looks different? What you think?