Yeah I doubt that. Why? What would trigger a crash in 2016? People claim there's gonna be a crash every year.
Yeah I'm skeptical about this overly dramatic doomsday crash as well, but I did read about there being a similar crash (2008/09 housing) related to car financing coming up, probably not as intense. We'll see though. I think the ETF things the Winklevoss are trying to spearhead will have a large affect on bitcoin price this year though.
2008/2009 crash is caused by subprime mortgage.
Exactly, It
was caused by allowing americans to take out mortgages (on homes) they really couldn't afford if interest rates went up. The lenders of those mortgages bundled them into securities and sold to large investment banks and insurance providers. Rates went up, and a ripple effect of defaults occured... What I'm saying is apparently there's a similar thing going on with
car loans that americans can't really affordI don't think that car loans and defaults due to inability to pay them will have any dramatic effect on the markets as it happened in 2008 when the Fed had to bail out major banks considered too big to fail and start a series of quantitative easings after that. Cars are much cheaper than houses overall. Really, how many cars do you know that cost half a million dollars or more? Further, cars are not as endurable and lasting as houses so banks giving such loans should have taken into account this...
And last but not least, it is easier to sequester a car than a house, especially if you and your family live there (small children and such things)
Taking control of the underlying asset wasn't the problem, it was all the leveraged derivatives placed on top the underlying initial asset that were rolled into complex and illiquid investment vehicles so that when defaults happened, the losses were 1) amplified by the leverage and 2) frozen because they were illiquid. Those two factors caused the entire financial sector to seize up, and without access to capital, large firms started failing in what would have been a domino effect without government intervention. So the fact that cars are easier to repossess than houses doesn't alleviate the problem if those two conditions are not addressed.
What's the purpose in taking control over something which immediately starts losing its value on the first use? I guess the expenses might heavily outweigh the potential proceeds from selling these cars. In fact, I heard and read a lot about subprime mortgage crisis in the US (I remember that I even watched some movie about that, was it Billions?), but it was only yesterday that I read here about car loans that could potentially cause a similar financial crisis. How likely is that? How likely that those two conditions you refer to are ever to emerge in the first place?
As to me, it looks more like a storm in a tea-cup (or something like once bitten, twice shy)
By "sequester," I thought you meant repossess. If that's not the case, that point isn't relevant.
The same two conditions do exist for subprime car loans, that's the point in drawing the analogy. Nothing has changed with the process, it's just a new risky security at the heart of it: subprime auto loans. The auto loans still have levered derivatives built on top of them, and the loans and the derivatives are both rolled into convoluted investment vehicles that are layered and complex to the point of reducing liquidity. When the investments are that layered, you can't dispose of the toxic parts easily, which was the problem with the housing crisis. Loans were defaulting, but it was impossible to know who owned them or how they impacted the overall vehicles they were rolled into, so everyone stopped all transactions involving them. Same thing with the auto loans now, the point is that it doesn't take a very large portion of the original loans to default to cause large problems because the effects are amplified by the leverage and the low liquidity.
But you also may be on to something in that there is a level of hype due to how bad it was last time. There's really no way to know which until something goes horribly wrong or doesn't.