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Ray Dalio

Big Debt Crises

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  • 洪一萍has quoted5 years ago
    If lending standards are so tight that they require a near certainty of being paid back, that may lead to fewer debt problems but too little development. If the lending standards are looser, that could lead to more development but could also create serious debt problems down the road that erase the benefits.
  • 洪一萍has quoted5 years ago
    there is nothing like the pain of being wrong or the pleasure of being right as a global macro investor
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    because credit creates both spending power and debt, whether or not more credit is desirable depends on whether the borrowed money is used productively enough to generate sufficient income to service the debt
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    Buying something you can’t afford means spending more than you make. You’re not just borrowing from your lender; you are borrowing from your future self. Essentially, you are creating a time in the future in which you will need to spend less than you make so you can pay it back.
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    too little credit/debt growth can create as bad or worse economic problems as having too much, with the costs coming in the form of foregone opportunities.
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    the question of whether rapid credit/debt growth is a good or bad thing hinges on what that credit produces and how the debt is repaid (i.e., how the debt is serviced).
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    Clearly, giving the ability to make purchases by providing credit is, in and of itself, a good thing, and not providing the power to buy and do good things can be a bad thing.
  • Mikhail Khmelikhas quoted4 years ago
    Credit is the giving of buying power. This buying power is granted in exchange for a promise to pay it back, which is debt.
  • 洪一萍has quoted5 years ago
    too little credit/debt growth can create as bad or worse economic problems as having too much, with the costs coming in the form of foregone opportunities.

    Generally speaking, because credit creates both spending power and debt, whether or not more credit is desirable depends on whether the borrowed money is used productively enough to generate sufficient income to service the debt.
  • 洪一萍has quoted5 years ago
    the question of whether rapid credit/debt growth is a good or bad thing hinges on what that credit produces and how the debt is repaid (i.e., how the debt is serviced).
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