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Are We in Another Credit Bubble? And Is It Different than Before?
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Whatever your politics, creed or nationality — we can all agree that a huge catalyst for the 2008-9 global financial meltdown was the universal binge of bad credit.
A huge part of that bad-debt pile were the “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” high-yield bonds — a.k.a. junk bonds — which were used to fund a lot of things, including corporate takeovers.
You might still remember how, at the time, few saw any reason to question the upside potential of these lower-grade yet higher-yielding loan instruments. Here, the following articles from 2007 recapture the scene:
The ensuing credit implosion systematically restored the political correctness of the word “junk,” as high-yielding bonds plummeted in the worst debt crisis since the Great Depression.
Which brings us to the trillion-dollar question: What about now? Or, expanded in a handy bullet-point format, the same question may be phrased like this:
Well, the following chart from Elliott Wave International’s May 2015 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast shows you that — yes! The credit bubble underway in the United States today is different than the one that triggered the 2008-9 crisis.
It’s bigger.
Our new, May Financial Forecast goes on to explain why it is so with an equally shocking chart of U.S. consumer credit since 1980.
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