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Posts Tagged: “loan defaults“

May 15, 2024 Original Analysis

Soaring Inflation is Making Home & Car Insurance Unaffordable

American car owners are facing a wall of bad debt to finance vehicles they can’t afford — especially pandemic buyers who took on huge loans to buy overpriced used vehicles that are now depreciating in value. With inflation running hot and poised to get even hotter if the Fed is forced to cut rates, it turns out that Americans can’t afford to insure those cars […]

January 17, 2024 Original Analysis

Ballooning Credit & Rate Cuts: A Perfect Storm for Default

With consumer debt reaching record levels, the Federal Reserve contemplating rate cuts in 2024, and post-Covid inflation still yet to reach its peak, a storm is indeed brewing.

April 11, 2018 Key Gold Headlines

Retail Defaults at All-Time High

There were more signs of a retail apocalypse in the first quarter of this year. Defaults by retail companies rated by Moody’s hit an all-time high in Q1. There were a total of nine defaults among Moody’s-rated retail corporates. According to Wolf Street, total corporate defaults in Q1 were up 22% from last year, and […]