Risky Company Debt Is Getting Riskier

via bloomberg: Protections built into loans and bonds are being steadily eroded, but investors keep buying. One night in 1982, a group of bankers from Drexel Burnham Lambert gathered at the Quilted Giraffe, a nouvelle cuisine restaurant in New York frequented by Warren …

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A risky resurgence? Leveraged finance has doubled in size since the Great Financial Crisis, debt costs…

A risky resurgence? Leveraged finance has doubled in size since the Great Financial Crisis, but vulnerabilities may arise with the normalisation of monetary policy #LeveragedLoans https://t.co/GE9d9Ag8iX pic.twitter.com/p8xrmX1DHR — Bank for International Settlements (@BIS_org) November 7, 2018 US debt costs continue …

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Jim Grant: It’s a Very Risky Time

Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Founder and Editor James Grant and CNBC’s Rick Santelli discuss the otherworldly nature of credit markets. Santelli Exchange: Jim Grant on the markets from CNBC. Margin Debt hits historical levels, watch this spread! CLICK ON CHART …

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Weirdest Time Ever: Stocks Most Expensive In Record Yet Not Risky, America's Confidence About The Economy And Its President Has Almost Never Been Wider

Go back to bed you're not allowed to see this pic.twitter.com/M4oNFmFkc1 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 2, 2017 The Year Stocks Stopped Being Risky https://t.co/AW1JYlMM2M @WSJ @chrisdieterich pic.twitter.com/evvLjqOtKn — Leveraged Loans (@lcdnews) October 29, 2017 The spread between America's confidence about …

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