Why Recession Has Been Delayed
Several years ago people worried that recession would soon come and make stock prices plummet. Instead the economy kept growing and is now the longest expansion in U.S. history. Reasons why recession was delayed: 1. Aggressive use of junk bond investing (by yield-starved investors) has provided extra funds for poor quality business; in previous cycles these businesses would have failed sooner thus triggering a recession. 2. Migratory capital from the EU and Japan, where desperate savers hurt by negative interest rates, have sent capital to the U.S. junk finance markets. (Junk finance can be junk bonds, Bank Loan Funds, Peer-to-Peer loans, BDCs, put option writing, and some Venture Capital funds that foolishly invest in over-hyped non-technical so-called “tech”