A new report by the CFPB uses over five million credit records from one of the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies to examine how credit card companies have used credit line decreases throughout the Great Recession and the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a general trend, the report found issuers used credit line decreases during broad economic downturns as a way to decrease overall risk.
The report’s discussion of the underlying data included the following:
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