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Hey thanks for the extra reading. I understand the example, but surely these are outliers? Banks won’t give you a mortgage without insurance, and most people d
by jonplackett 6y ago
Hey thanks for the extra reading.
I understand the example, but surely these are outliers? Banks won’t give you a mortgage without insurance, and most people do pay their insurance. So banks can’t be taking that much of a hit except under extreme circumstances. Most of the time they do pretty well out of defaults. They just take the house and sell it. They’ll only lend to you in the first place if you have reasonable collateral (again 2008 housing crisis is a lesson they learned on that) but they still ultimately got the asset + all the money paid in interest up to that point. Am I missing something?
- rags2riches 6y agoNo, you're not missing anything. The point is just that it's not a vice of mathematically assured doom because of the fact that money is debt. Banking can be a really good business and bankers have been really good at lobbying, but that is not what the Money as Debt scare is about. In the end, debt is a type of relation between people. And banking is a business with its own costs and risks.