Interesting. Rent default domino effect.
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This makes me think that financialization of mortgates via bundling etc is a problem primarily because it discards the illegible trust on which debt forgiveness/debt rescheduling type actions rest. Creates a financial doomsday device.
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If I owe you $100, and can't pay, you and I can negotiate and maybe I give you $50 on schedule, and $50 later at slightly lower interest. But if you sell the debt as 100 $1 loans to 100 anonymous people on a market, that flexibility is lost because I can't negotiate with them.
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Basically consequences of distress and defaults should never be automated because they tend to be complex contingencies requiring human responses. Automating AND distributing them is double jeopardy. Sudden automated repo trigger on 1 missed payment, flash crash etc.
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Not sure what you mean by that. There's an entire distressed debt industry. Now, the implicit state guarantee of residential mortgages is a whole other problem...
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This is a good point. Also the first-order effect of increasing credit available for purchase of positional goods does nothing but inflate the value of said positional goods.
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