Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up
Mortgage debt will probably not be a problem in this cycle. People have this bias to remember most recent event, but it's rarely the same thing twice in a row: https://imgur.com/a/0dT7iHKCorporate debt may be: https://imgur.com/a/b54hMSgAnd frankly with the amount of outstanding US govt debt and underfunded pension & healthcare liabilities the USD may either get dethroned and devalued or sent into the negative interest rates purgatory like Japan is currently living in. Japan cannot possibly ever raise rates, at 2% rates 100% of their tax take will go towards paying the interest on their 250% national debt.Add to that the history of Smoot-Hawley and the general outlook of the 1930s ...