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cs702today at 2:24 PM4 repliesview on HN

Trouble has been brewing in private credit for quite a while, but lenders and investors have been reluctant to write anything down, resorting to all kinds of "extend and pretend" games to avoid write-downs.[a]

tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...

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[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=47351462


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lokartoday at 2:50 PM

The only problem is allowing regulated US banks with an implicit gov guarantee to lend money to them.

boringgtoday at 3:17 PM

There are limited ways to short these positions which would probably add some fuel to the fire.

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sciencesamatoday at 2:38 PM

But what will break the clock ?

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RobRiveratoday at 2:34 PM

What kind of trouble is brewing from the migration of partner capital committment to credit based on NAV?

What is the risk, probability of actualizing the risk, and the outcome of actualized risk?

The ticktock ticktock routine reads like baseless fearmongering to me.

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