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bryanrasmussen | on: US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
Wouldn't they still owe interest to the banks on the money they borrowed, as well as the money they borrowed? I mean if all the money I make goes to the bank to pay off my mortgage my solution is not quitting my job, even though life is not very good under that situation.
klodolph | parent | next
The analogy has a lot of problems.

Imagine you got a loan to buy a bunch of laundry machines to run a laundromat. But your laundromat earns $8,000 a month, and the loan payment is $10,000.

You can decide to sink $2,000 of your personal money into the laundromat every month, or you can give up.

miketery | parent
The business owes the money or the fund. In any case the individuals do not unless they backed it with personal collateral.
bryanrasmussen | root | parent
hmm, yeah ok so the collateral is the business they are buying, I forgot that one.