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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (88581)	11/6/2007 10:26:08 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 110194

I personally would rather use the term 'credit contraction' and not the other which I find a bit confusion, e.g. I want my own debt to deflate, which happens during general monetary inflation. In any event, in the 99-00 timeframe, was there an actual credit contraction? I forget when the credit accelerated and grew into an epic bubble. I think the contraction in '00 was nothing compared to what's coming down the pike and so using the tech bubble popping won't give a clear picture. Lots of housing losses are yet to be realized. Some will be with actual homeowners who had 25% equity, mostly down payment, and no have zero equity.