I got to this article about the developing subprime crisis in auto loans before Skol did, as he is now posting articles high-lighting the bad news coming out of the US economy -
New U.S. Subprime Boom, Same Old Sins: Auto Defaults Are Soaring
By
**rielle Coppola
17 July 2017 9:00 PM
It’s classic subprime: hasty loans, rapid defaults, and, at times, outright fraud.
Only this isn’t the U.S. housing market circa 2007. It’s the U.S. auto industry circa 2017.
A decade after the mortgage debacle, the financial industry has embraced another type of subprime debt: auto loans. And, like last time, the risks are spreading as they’re bundled into securities for investors worldwide.