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Margin calls on mortgage lenders at unprecedented levels

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Re: Margin calls on mortgage lenders at unprecedented levels

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Sure, why not, let's have the unemployment of 1929, the pandemic of 1918, and the collapse of an unsound financial sector à la 2008. It'll be swell.

The good news is that the siderial motion by which the sun "rises" cannot be affected by human follies.

Re: Margin calls on mortgage lenders at unprecedented levels

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post #2

Sure, why not, let's have the unemployment of 1929, the pandemic of 1918, and the collapse of an unsound financial sector à la 2008. It'll be swell.

The good news is that the siderial motion by which the sun "rises" cannot be affected by human follies.

Good point. Only Superman can affect that.

Re: Margin calls on mortgage lenders at unprecedented levels

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Sure, why not, let's have the unemployment of 1929, the pandemic of 1918, and the collapse of an unsound financial sector à la 2008. It'll be swell.

It's ironic that the economy / stock market hasn't become more resilient since 2008, despite more measures being taken. I mean sure, it's more difficult to get a mortgage you can't pay now (speaking for myself), but there's so much more fragile stuff that has been added in the past ten years; for example, a lot more amateurs have jumped into the stock market because one, savings interest rates have plummeted to effectively zero, and two, the attraction of getting rich quick thanks to bitcoin and overvalued hip stocks like TSLA.
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