For June, the most recent month available, student loans totaled $1.18 billion while auto loans totaled $841 million.
IPD, a data provider, says they slumped some 6% in November, the most recent month for which it has statistics.
As of September, the most recent month for which data are available, 40.1 percent of the unemployed had been looking for work for at least 27 weeks.
In February, the most recent month for which trade data are available, the dollar was 4.5% cheaper in real terms than a year earlier.
As of this past July, the most recent month of data available, there were nearly 48 million, representing about a seventh of the American population.
Close behind was Greece, at 25.1 percent in July, the most recent month for which data were available for that country.
And for the first time since 2007, the rate experienced a yearly decline when it dropped to 4.56 percent in September, the most recent month for which data was available, from 4.72 percent in September 2009.
More critically, India's imports in July, the most recent month of data, have not slowed enough to curb its bruising trade deficit of $12.27 billion, the same total as in June.
The full 9.8 percent drop in income from the start of the recession to this June — the most recent month in the study — appears to be the largest in several decades, according to other Census Bureau data.
Also, semiconductor sales around the world grew notably in September, the most recent month for industry-wide data.
The company has a long way to go, having lost $84.1 million in November (the most recent month for which it has provided numbers), but gurus were willing to take a chance.
