Here’s a good chart showing corporate leverage and its correlation to cyclical peaks. This is one reason I’ve been avoiding corporate bonds in favor of Treasury bonds the last few years.
I don’t think the next crisis will begin with mortgage defaults this time around but with a wave of corporate defaults.
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