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what do you think will happen to personal debt when the dollar and global economy crashes?

November 28th, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

will our personal debt be dissolved or just moved along with the new currency and world gov etc.?

It has already happened, which is why the recovery is taking so long. This is a "balance sheet" recession.
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3065
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/08/first-draft-of-september-8-principles-of-economics-lecture-financial-markets-and-depression-economics.html

So we’ve seen what happens:

A. People abandon their homes because they can’t afford the mortgages.

B. People renege on their other debts: credit cards, etc.

etc. Those who have jobs pay off the debt they can,
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/07/08/consumer-borrowing-dropped-again-in-may/
but most of the decline in outstanding personal debt has been defaults:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/default.htm
http://www.housingwire.com/2011/01/19/household-debt-decreased-in-2010-due-in-part-to-default
and it has been this was since the recession began:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/23/idUS160626+23-Jul-2008+BW20080723

Of course, this has hurt the small banks (those that didn’t get federal rescue money) a great deal:
How The Bailouts Hurt Small Banks and Benefited Big Finance.

And the result is nasty (and self defeating) for all
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/damnification/

  1. Robert
    November 28th, 2012 at 20:22 | #1

    You better get your money out of the bank!
    References :

  2. Anjaree
    November 28th, 2012 at 20:35 | #2

    It will be a bank run.People will stop paying debts to the banks whatsoever.It will turn good to worst.
    References :

  3. simplicitus
    November 28th, 2012 at 21:12 | #3

    It has already happened, which is why the recovery is taking so long. This is a "balance sheet" recession.
    http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3065
    http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/08/first-draft-of-september-8-principles-of-economics-lecture-financial-markets-and-depression-economics.html
    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/default-is-in-our-stars/

    So we’ve seen what happens:

    A. People abandon their homes because they can’t afford the mortgages.

    B. People renege on their other debts: credit cards, etc.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/business/25credit.html

    etc. Those who have jobs pay off the debt they can,
    http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/07/08/consumer-borrowing-dropped-again-in-may/
    but most of the decline in outstanding personal debt has been defaults:
    http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/default.htm
    http://www.housingwire.com/2011/01/19/household-debt-decreased-in-2010-due-in-part-to-default
    and it has been this was since the recession began:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/23/idUS160626+23-Jul-2008+BW20080723

    Of course, this has hurt the small banks (those that didn’t get federal rescue money) a great deal:
    http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/how-the-bailouts-hurt-small-banks-and-benefited-big-finance/

    And the result is nasty (and self defeating) for all
    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/damnification/
    References :
    http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/richardc.koo.pdf

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