Posted on 01/21/2015 12:09:48 PM PST by alexmark1917
Over the coming months, I believe we could see an economic meltdown at least six times the size of the 2007 subprime mortgage meltdown...
The next financial collapse, already on our radar screen, will not come from hedge funds or home mortgages. It will come from junk bonds, especially energy-related and emerging-market corporate debt. The Financial Times recently estimated that the total amount of energy-related corporate debt issued from 2009-2014 for exploration and development is over $5 trillion. Meanwhile, the Bank for International Settlements recently estimated that the total amount of emerging-market dollar-denominated corporate debt is over $9 trillion.
Energy-sector debt has been called into question because of the collapse of oil prices. And emerging markets debt has been called into question because of a global growth slowdown, global deflation, and the strong dollar.
The result is a $14 trillion pile of corporate debt that cannot possibly be repaid or rolled over under current economic conditions. Not all of this debt will default, but a lot of it will. Most of the energy related debt was issued in theexpectation that oil would remain in the $80 to $130 dollar per barrel range.Most of the emerging markets debt was issued with the expectation that the dollar would remain at its weak 2011 levels. Instead oil is down, and the dollar is up, which capsizes these expectations. The moves have been swift and dramatic. Over the past six months, oil has crashed 52%, while the U.S. Dollar Index rose 15%. If default rates are only 10% — a conservative assumption — this corporate debt fiasco will be six times larger than the subprime losses in 2007.
http://dailyreckoning.com/perfect-storm-approaches/
My guess is multiple bubbles will start popping...we have another housing/subprime bubble that will be popped
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/01/16/pin-meet-housing-bubble-2-0/
There's also the student loan bubble and even a subprime auto bubble among others...point being, is this is ALL the FED knows how to do...blow asset bubbles to stay afloat.
Also check out David Morgan talking about oil derivatives wrecking the economy with a 4-5 month lag time...
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — James Rickards, chief global strategist at West Shore Funds, explains why commodities are crashing. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Scarlet Fu on “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Currency Wars: Jim Rickards on Financial Warfare
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/06/jim-rickards-on-economic-war.html
Which Corp will be to big to fail this year.
Does this mean electric and gas utilities?
Energy that everybody needs...?
Somebody's going to make a fortune shorting the right stocks this year.
Lots of talk about wind not being able to repay loans at the same time they need to cut costs to compete with fossils.
Financiers cold be throwing themselves out of windows by the score, soup lines could be miles long and the Americans eating tree bark and the media will be reporting that everything is rosy economically - until Obama leaves office.
Not yet.
The holders of those bonds will just sell them to the Federal Reserve, and the can will be kicked down the road once more.
But Obama says the crisis is over.
Soros and/or Pelosi.
for later
And guess who will get the blame ... the GOP - upon taking control of the House and Senate.
At least 6-times worse?
Wow—Hard to argue with that level of precision.
bump
I look for code words and euphimisms in these types of analyses.
“Over the coming months, I believe we could see an economic meltdown at least six times the size of the 2007 subprime mortgage meltdown... “
While I think stuff wont be great in the economy for a while, I really have grown tired of these people constantly predicting stuff like this, as they have for years, usually followed with a pitch for some book or “survival” product they are hawking.
Economies rise, and they fall. Happens all the time. Dont need some dolt economist to tell you that.
Wrong question, the question is who will be the first to blame Bush when it happens.
don’t sound right to me.
CDS they wrote on all the toxic debt.
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