| The Fuse is Now Lit on Over $10 Trillion in Corporate Debt Dear Money & Crisis Reader, We are now entering the time in which the true structural damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be revealed. Back in April when the economy was on lockdown, it became clear that many large businesses were in serious trouble – specifically restaurants, commercial real estate, and retail. At that time, multiple large chains informed their lenders that they would NOT be paying rent in April. Here's a headline from March 26: Cheesecake Factory, Subway, other major retailers tell landlords they can't pay April rent due to coronavirus Source: Yahoo! Finance To deal with this issue, banks and large financial institutions gave their borrowers 90-day forbearances on their debt payments… meaning those groups wouldn't be required to make debt payments for 90 days. Put another way, the banks told these businesses: "Don't worry about making any debt payments for 90 days… think of this as a debt holiday." That was in April… exactly 90 days ago. |
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