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mk  ·  2099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US Corporate debt tops $6T

This round it is the companies that had cheap credit and overbought. No blaming homeowners on this one, people are just going to be laid off. I imagine that will affect the psychology of the recession. Also, student debt holders are going to take it really hard.





kleinbl00  ·  2099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We're all Toys'r'Us kids now

HGL  ·  2095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't the government own all the student loans? The corporate debt unraveling will be nasty though I think that will be fuel for the next financial crisis. If corporate bankruptcy courts get clogged up and become unable to clear the backlog that will become really nasty really quickly.

Think about that... people living paycheck to paycheck suddenly not getting a paycheck. People who dont have $500 of float would loose 1-2 weeks of salary and wouldn't even be able to file and collect unemployment fast enough to soften the blow. Having that happen in mass is downright scary.

The thing about the housing crisis is that it was really slow to happen and people who were affected by foreclosure actually ended up with a short term income boost due to not having to pay rent. If companies go bankrupt suddenly accounts just get frozen, employees abruptly loose income, and it sends shock waves though the entire system.