The timing couldn't be worse for American families.
Total household debt has hit a record $18.39 trillion,
and Americans now spend about 11% of their income
just on debt payments
In 2018 our household started to exit a decade of hard poverty. FF to now and we have some savings and no debt. The other natural outcome of saving-to-buy (now that we can afford to do that) was zero credit ratings for the 6 of us.
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0 debt and 10k now with my upvote :)
Sweet. Thanks.
> Bloomberg estimates the subprime auto market to be worth $80 billion to investors. (2)
It's not going to put the big banks out of business. Maybe it will hurt their profits somewhat.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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For anyone not yet in the know apparently a subprime auto loan company suddenly went bankrupt early last month amid accusations of fraud
Alt link with related news: https://moneywise.com/loans/auto-loans/tricolor-subprime-aut...
And beyond that they made many loans to undocumented immigrants (as per article). Deported people tend to not pay their car note.