IMF: $3 trillion in “Over-Borrowing Now Threatens To Unleash a Wave of Defaults”
The next great financial crisis may be only a short time away.
As readers know, SHTF has routinely covered the bleak warnings and predictions of market insiders and critics of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve.
Now, there is yet another indication that things are reaching a tipping point, and the system is all-too-vulnerable to collapse. Borrowers in states across the globe are under threat of default, and many would be unable to repay loans with even a modest adjustment in the interest rate.
There is so much debt piled up all over the place, that things are absolutely in danger of coming unglued. The IMF is now hovering over the situation, warning of impending crisis.
According to the London Telegraph:
A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report
Governments and central banks risk tipping the world into a fresh financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned, as it called time on a corporate debt binge in the developing world.
Emerging market companies have “over-borrowed” by $3 trillion in the last decade, reflecting a quadrupling of private sector debt between 2004 and 2014, found the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report.
This dangerous over-leveraging now threatens to unleash a wave of defaults that will imperil an already weak global economy, said stark findings from the IMF’s twice yearly report.
Things are apparently teetering dangerously over the edge, with plenty of room to trigger further chaos in the developing world:
The slightest miscalculation, they said, could collapse into a “failed normalisation” of interest rates and market conditions, wiping 3pc from the world’s economic output over the next two years.
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