The Biggest Deleveraging in History Has Just Begun 3-20-2023
The Biggest Deleveraging in History has Just Begun
Heresy Financial: 3-20-2023
The biggest deleveraging in history has just begun, and cannot be stopped. The global financial system has more leverage than it ever has in history.
Whether you want to look at the national debt, almost 31 trillion or household debt skyrocketing to all-time highs, or the debt that corporations have on their balance sheets right now, levels are never seen, or the number of loans outstanding that banks have issued.
By any measure, we are more overleveraged today than ever in history. And that just looks at the debt that does not even consider that the derivatives market, which by many estimates is many times larger than the debt.
And one thing is sure about leverage it is always followed by deleveraging. It is not avoidable.
And given the collapse of systemically important banks like Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, it looks clear now that deflationary deleveraging has begun.
The only question is, how far will it go?
Timecodes
0:00 Video Introduction
1:10 Understanding Leverage and Debt
3:44 Deleveraging and Austerity
4:48 Central Planners and the Boom-Bust Cycle
6:42 Defaults and Economic Pain
9:33 The Effect of Inflationary Deleveraging on Affordability
10:28 Deflationary Deleveraging and Its Manifestation
11:04 Default Situation and Its Effect on Deleveraging
13:41 Factors Influencing the Extent of Deleveraging
14:48 The Federal Reserve's Role in Deleveraging
17:01 Potential Scenarios: Inflationary vs De.flationary Deleveraging