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Comment by corford

Yeah but unlike a mortgage (secured against one static asset i.e. a house), the article assumes most of this debt will be issued against the strength and quality of a company's various recurring revenue streams (even speculating that different components of this could be financed separately to try and account for the varied risk).

Just need to make sure you don't end up with financers/banks/rating agencies colluding to bundle multiple companies together and sell tranches of the debt (all with a phony A+ rating) to investors/funds...

parent corford 6 years ago

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