Fed research confirms life insurers’ exposure to private credit exceeds 2007 subprime levels. Commercial real estate crisis ignored for years, now media blames AI

“The Fed published a research note in March 2025 that almost nobody read. It found that life insurers’ exposure to below-investment-grade debt now exceeds the industry’s exposure to subprime mortgage-backed securities in late 2007. Let that land. The same financial …

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Margin Debt Exceeds $1Trillion. Can you Imagine the Magnitude of the Crash if there is low or no Exiting Liquidity? Visual Representation of the Nasdaq 100 and Crowded AI Trades!

Margin Debt Exceeds $1Trillion. Can you Imagine the Magnitude of the Crash if there is low or no Exiting Liquidity? byu/Hephaestus4 inWallstreetsilver Visual Representation of the Nasdaq 100 and Crowded AI Trades! byu/Hephaestus4 inWallstreetsilver Chairman of UBS Group AG warns …

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The world is awash in uncertainty; it now exceeds the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Bears must love SPX seasonality for the next 30-40 days.

The world is awash in uncertainty; it now exceeds the onset of the pandemic in 2020. pic.twitter.com/bwkNWbDefU — Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) February 16, 2025 Bears must love SPX seasonality for the next 30-40 days. pic.twitter.com/cJOxQ30YCI — BraVoCycles Newsletter (@BraVoCycles) February …

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US Federal Debt Payments Now Exceeds Defense

U.S. interest payments on its debt are now set to exceed defense spending. This year, federal spending on interest payments is forecast to reach $870 billion, surpassing the $822 billion allocated for defense in 2024. The rising interest costs are driven by factors such …

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US Interest Cost Now Exceeds $1T

The US will need to print over $1T per year just to pay the interest. Since US Gross Domestic Product is roughly $25T that means that inflation will never be below 4% ($1T / $25T) until the US goes bankrupt. …

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Addicted To Gov? US Added $600 Billion In Debt In One Month And $10.47 TRILLION Since Covid Outbreak, Credit Card APR Now 28.93% As Credit Card Debt Exceeds $1 TRILLION, Family Healthcare Costs Surge 7% To $24,000, Q3 Real GDP Rises 4.9%

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics new theme song is “Addicted To Gov.” Bidenomics needs lots of Federal spending and borrowing to survive. But all this spending and borrowing is causing rapid price increases and other distortions. The US Federal government just added $600 billion …

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New York Fed: Total Household Debt Reaches $17.06 Trillion in Q2 2023 (increased by $2.9 trillion since the end of 2019); Credit Card Debt Exceeds $1 Trillion for the first time. The Debt Time Bomb is Ticking…

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/interactives/householdcredit/data/pdf/HHDC_2023Q2 https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html Wut mean?: Credit Card Balances: A notable increase of $45 billion to a record $1.03 trillion, along with a rise in credit card account limits to $4.6 trillion. Mortgages: Balances remained steady at $12.01 trillion. Mortgage originations, including …

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