Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: QOTD: Many experts regarded the increase in credit card

Many experts regarded the increase in credit card borrowing in March not as a sign that households were pressed for cash and forced to borrow,rather a sign of confidence by households that they could safely handle new debt.

A rather a sign of confidence by households that they could safely - “not X rather Y” is non-idiomatic ; parallelism issue
B yet as a sign of households' confidence that it was safe for them to - “not X yet Y” is non-idiomatic
C but a sign of confidence by households
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