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Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by thephyber on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:35PM (#23410383)
I like to remind people that in 2008, Bear Stearns fell in March. Most of the the economy didn't realize the financial system problems until late August.

I'm waiting for a very large shoe to drop in a few months. How big will depend on whether consumers feel comfortable about their jobs+health.

Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by adamsmith on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:25AM (#23413227)
The turnarounds always happen quickly after the fed takes serious action. Consider the 2008 crisis, or take 1933 (I believe?) when we broke from the gold standard: immediate exit from the Great Depression.

The fed and congress have been very on point with the stimulus response speed this time around and so I think we’ve seen the bottom of the market through this. And most investors are voting with their dollars that this is true.

(I’m just parroting Ray Dalio.)

Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by bsanr2 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:47PM (#23411779)
Titanic Syndrome. Everything's going under, but the people on the upper decks are still enjoying their late-night cigars while the boiler crew is drowning. It's an interesting phenomenon (and, I'm sure, has a better name than the one I just made up).
Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by fabianhjr on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:57AM (#23412590)
Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by bsanr2 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:38PM (#23423316)
I wanna say, "There we go," but this is slightly different. Not so much that one failure unexpectedly causes total collapse down the line, more so that a catastrophic failure of important components (which obviously are going to cause a system collapse to anyone who knows what happened) happens in a system so large that other portions of that doomed system are not even aware.
Re:Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaul... by uoaei on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:04PM (#23411132)
> How big will depend on whether consumers feel comfortable about their jobs+health.

This is a very frightening sentence because obviously not many consumers feel comfortable about either right now.