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by variaga
418 days ago
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Commonly, the bank that undewrites the loans will essentially do the same thing - they collect a commission but sell the underlying debt to someone else as (high-yield, because they are high-risk) bonds. If you've heard of "Junk Bonds", this is (one source) of where they come from. It's like a financial game of "hot potato" - you can make money as long as you're not the last person to hold the debt. So the answer to "who lends the money?" is "anyone who thinks they can sell the debt to someone else before it explodes". In the end, a lot of it goes to "unsophisticated" individual investors, who will buy it based on "Sears (or whoever) is a great company, why wouldn't I buy their bonds" without realizing the full extend of what's happening. |
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Unfortunately, a lot of these and similar financial schemes end with the phrase "...eventually retail investors end up holding the bag and taking the losses." LBOs, collateralized mortgages, crypto, every equity that gets pumped and dumped. When every layer in the banking industry has skimmed its profit and did their own renaming/reselling/repackaging of these "products" finally there's some individual investor chump who takes the loss, making the numbers add up.