The US finance underwent deep changes as from the 1980s when market led finance increasingly prevailed. The wealth and credit management forced a specific dynamics upon asset prices and reverberated throughout spending decisions (consumption and investment) of economic agents. This paper deals with the net worth evolution of these agents in the recent three growth cycles of the US economy under the command of asset and credit cycles, the so-called financial-led cycles.
Asset cycles; financial-led cycle; US economy
