Re:Redfin: Vacation real-estate ‘toast’ as Airbnb owners rus...
by kkotak on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:37PM
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The economy without credit/margin/leverage is unfathomable at this point and were it be that way for the past millennia, the size of the overall global economy would've been very very tiny fraction of today's, but arguably could've prevented most stress related diseases :).
> In any other market, unsophisticated investors would have been margin called overnight. Instead they get to sit for years on slowly moving prices, and use those years to continue boosting their collateral as if nothing happened.
This is a really interesting point. I've never thought of it this way.