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Re: Fed Economists Warn Of Looming Disaster Due To High Interest Rates

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Re: “If the corporations took out low interest loans . . . Assuming the loans were fixed interest at those low rates . . what is the problem?”
Over-leveraged is over-leveraged. It's never good, no matter what the interest rate might be.

Many companies took on too much debt after getting used to refinancing as a means of making excessive debt manageabl. But with interest rates up, refinancing is not an option.

On top of that, some American companies got the low rates they did by taking out variable rate loans. When rates fall, variable rate loans are wonderful. But when they rise, it's a different story.

So the scenario you describe isn't the reality. A lot of companies took on more debt than they could afford, expecting rates to stay where they were or to even go lower. They gambled and they lost.








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Re: Fed Economists Warn Of Looming Disaster Due To High Interest Rates
By: Zimbler0
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Wed, 05 Jul 23 3:47 AM
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More than a decade of artificially low-interest rates coupled with massive stimulus injected into the economy during the pandemic incentivized companies to load up on low-interest debt.
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Help me out here De . . .
If the corporations took out low interest loans . . . Assuming the loans were fixed interest at those low rates . . what is the problem?

Zim.


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