Private-Equity Firms And Hedge Funds Hurt By Subprime Auto Loans

(The Business Insider) As the US auto market has boomed in 2015 and 2016, setting new sales records, analysts have become preoccupied with so-called “subprime” lending, and especially with a subset of subprime known as “deep subprime.” Because auto loans are securitized like mortgages, numerous comparisons have been made with the subprime home-lending meltdown that led to the financial crisis. The auto market is much smaller and governed by dynamics that are quite different from mortgages, but…

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