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Will We Never Learn?
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Just Keep Dancing: Introducing The 97-Month Auto Loan
While many of us have been shouting about this from the rooftops for years now, with each passing day it becomes more clear what a terrifyingly gigantic powder keg we have created. There is no debate that this will end in a compete financial holocaust, the only question is when and how. As time progresses, the practices and desperation of the status quo to keep the sheeple in debt and consuming is getting increasingly insane. We learn from the Wall Street Journal that:
The average price of a new car is now $31,000, up $3,000 in the past four years. But at the same time, the average monthly car payment edged down, to $460 from $465—the result of longer loan terms and lower interest rates.
In the final quarter of 2012, the average term of a new car note stretched out to 65 months, the longest ever, according to Experian Information Solutions Inc. Experian said that 17% of all new car loans in the past quarter were between 73 and 84 months and there were even a few as long as 97 months. Four years ago, only 11% of loans fell into this category.
Such long term loans can present consumers and lenders with heightened risk. With a six- or seven-year loan, it takes car-buyers longer to reach the point where they owe less on the car than it is worth. Having “negative equity” or being “upside down” in a car makes it harder to trade or sell the vehicle if the owner can’t make payments.
Hmmm, sound familiar?
Car makers have mixed feelings about long-term loans. They allow consumers to buy more expensive—and profitable—cars. But long loans may keep some people from replacing their cars, cutting into future sales.
I love how THAT is what they are concerned about.
Experts say there is an appetite for more risk because banks see limited downside in auto lending. The delinquency rates on car loans are near record lows, and used car values are at record highs. And if a buyer defaults, the bank can repossess and sell cars with limited losses.
Again, sound familiar?
Melinda Zabritski, director of automotive credit for Experian, said the greater availability of credit is helping the surge in new car sales. The percentage of subprime loans isn’t far below the record level of 2007, and the length of loans is growing, she said.
The length of loans has come a long way since Lee Iacocca, then a Ford regional manager, helped pioneer auto loans in the 1950s. He became a management star by developing a ’56 for $56 sales pitch. The idea: consumers could buy a 1956 Ford for 20% down and $56 a month. The loans were paid off in just 36 months.
Yep, we’ve come a long way alright. All the way to a bankrupt Banana Republic run by insane, immoral and extremely dangerous oligarchs and Central Bankers.
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Auto loans with BTC. Why not?
@Ahmeexnal
I like this idea. At least expressed in BTC, the cars are worth half of what they were yesterday. Sounds fair. Assuming you didn't own any BTC yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myyc812X1_I&feature=player_detailpage#t=43s
I just had this wonderful idea. What if we bundled a bunch of these loans together into a "product" that investors could buy shares of? This would make even more money available for car buyers since it's everyone's right to own a car. Then, we could have unregulated companies sell a sort of "insurance" in case those investors lost money due to some almost inconceivable hickup in the economy where more than a handful of "car owners" somehow became unable to continue paying their car loan payments. And, to make sure nothing bad happens, we'll let the gubmint be a back stop so that, even if those insurance policies need to kick in... knowing that these insurance companies don't really have real funds to pay on all the policies all of our connected "friends" have bought - betting against the "car bubble". This way, all of those corrupt campaign contributors... eh hem vulnerable investors get paid their due share, putting suckers... eh hem, tax payers on the hook.
You mean rinse and repeat? Great idea!
Soon: Repo jobs openings galore.
Once those bonds have been leveraged to 10^9, the "asset" underlying the bonds can never lose value, be written off or indeed be re-possessed and auctioned off. Price discovery hurts "stability" and "confidence". Right now, the best investment is perhaps to buy a piece of really dry desert where all these cars can be stored for the duration of the bonds ;-)
What are the borrowing costs of bitcoins? can i get a 1.9% APR loan
It's funny how those MSM flipped on BTC, today in the morning i read that BTC has a long long long way up
Am just wondering how many widows are there now..
BTC is a true reversal of fortune.
well, it looks to me like the sheep got the shit sheared out of them in bitcoin. but golly-gee-willikers, its back up to 198.22 as we speak.
i know one thing, its been fun to watch.
Those of us sitting in the BTC trading channel had a lot of fun trading the swings. This isn't the first time we've had this happen, and I doubt it will be the last. We're swinging back to the 180 - 190's at the moment.
I guess I could sit here and follow the old-man market, but I gave up on Bernanke and his goons a long time ago. Best of luck this coming May.
USA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko0jI2ccA74
bullish, dow 15000 coming by the end of the month??
End of the month?? Try the end of tomorrow's trading session
Any moar Government Reports to Leak early?
Obama gonna buy me a new car...
and let me put it on my EBT card!
The people of the world have gone from chains of iron to chains of debt - "winning" or as they say on CNN, "leaning forward".
Course dialed in and set on autopilot. We are going right into the event horizon.
"Leaning Forward" = "Assume the Position".
We're all in Barry's Bathhouse now....
If you need 97 months to pay off a fucking car, maybe a bycicle is a better choice for you.
Bycicle loans ? 36 months maybe, for starters ?
Even better: bysexcicles, so your wife can ride it too.
Peugoet Mixte.
well, its easy enuf to spend 10,000 on a good bike
i'd have that tri bike of my dreams if they would just give me a thousand month loan on the thing
Downvote for triathletes. I dont support competitive excercising.
When I can get a 30 year loan for it, I'll buy a new BMW. Maybe something reaaaaal classy that announces to people I've arrived, like a 1-series.
Nah, people are just behind the times. See, you can't live in a bicycle (down by the river). But, one of those Suburbans...
Plus, it can't get repo'd if keep moving around. And the taxpayers at large will ultimately get the bill. The "New" American way!
I think you are on to something there....
The cash for clunkers program is looking more and more insidious, isn't it?
Destroy fully functional cars, and thier good parts, to raise the price of used cars, and parts, and/or require people to buy new vehicles.
there's not going to be a planet in 97 months, Dark ages a comin bitchezzzz
But.. but.. what about Tamika, the single mother of five? She needs an LR4 to commute to and fro work, and to deny her the opportunity of financing one with a 97-month loan would be just plain racist! Someone get the Rainbow Coalition to dispel the hillbilly notions I've been reading here..
why? if I can get a 97 month loand at 0 to 1%....damn straight I'd finance it.
with the anticipate value of the dollar in 97 months....seems like a nice little arbitrage, hecky in 97 months, might be able to sell that 8 yr old car for more 'dollars' than you paid
They'll never give you the 97 month option at those rates. Or if they do, you're going to pay full MSRP before taxes, titles, fees, etc. Now if we go hyperinflationary you might be on to something. BUT, by now you MUST know that if that happens, you won't be able to afford groceries, much less your now 'cheaper' monthly car payment. The automakers don't care, because they can keep charging insane prices like $40-50k for a fucking 4x4 pickup truck (oooo, but its got nav and iphone gadgetry!.....and sheeple will continue to buy as long as they can eeek out that payment every month. The only way this will change is when J6P stops buying $50k pickups or $30k small/midsize cars, regardless of the loan terms.
Youre probably right...tho, actually I did just buy a new f250, well under retail for 72 mo. at something less than 2%. Could have paid cash, but bought a couple monster boxes instead...that was 4 months ago...so far it hasn't worked for me too well, but geeze money is cheap
Deserate status quo...that pretty much sums up what is happening in equity "markets."
Hey! I thought that my medical records were private! This is worrisome...
http://mtanga.com/Homer5.gif
My regional "bank" here in Ohio is offering Car-Equity Lines of Credit, so we've got that going for us.
Can I rehypothicate my car? If I get a used car and take out 6 equity loans on it, can I use that new cash to buy a new car? Then I can default on the equity lines, and walk away with the paid-for car?
Winning!
Loans make people richer.
Everyone knows debt is wealth. At least, everyone with a PhD in Economics from a reputable school.
Money multiplier bitchez
I bet Homer has a 97 month loan.
a friend of mine who is really bad with money just bought a 2005 ford f150 on an 84 month loan
An 8 year old truck with a 7 year loan? Yeah that should work out well.
a friend of mine who is really bad with money just bought a 2005 ford f150 on an 84 month loan
He must have been taught in Screwell in NEW MATH.
LOL! But, but, ya'll don't understand! He got it for a great deal! It's only costing him $59.99 a month!!!
Hey, why not a 20 year car loan?
C'mon GM, 20 year loan at 0.5% and the car guaranteed bumper-to-bumper for the life of the loan?
And we know how the "old" GM warranties worked out.
That's nothing. 30 years worth of car loans for all of those that rolled their car debt into their mortgage.
I worked with an old-timer back in the 80's, WWII Vet.
He worked for Cadillac for 30 years after the war. Told me how the management completely fucked the company and employees over. Lowered quality, pushed quantity over quality, and the final insult was to raid the worker's pensions.
He said that unfortunately he was too old and in ill-health to kill the mother fuckers or he would.
have you seen the financing it a piece at a time ads?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIuo0KIqD_E
I believe it. That truly was the Greatest Generation, particularly when compared to the fucking idiots that currently make up our country. If Wall Street or the 1% had tried 1/20th of the shit they routinely get away with now, in the 50's or 60's, Washington DC would be a smoldering ruin.
American cars are, on average mediocre with the median being absolute crap. There are a handful which approach decent, but for the same money you can get much better. Interiors are garbage and they just feel like a joke to drive, not to mention how fast they die, the number of problems they have almost immediately, and the fact that they maintain no value at all.
I actually laugh anytime someone mentions "Cadillac insurance" when trying to refer to something high end. It's simply not. No matter how much they blast the term around, it's just hilarious. The only thing they have going for them is their logo, which is a pathetic attempt to look dignified. The trucks used to be decent, but if you want a decent truck, you just get a Hilux and be done with it. But then again, when you're going for a truck, you're not looking for comfort or nice things. It's all the same little shitbox on wheels, typically with an oversized engine to make it "feel" like a good car, when it's actually anything but.
German cars are nice, but only on the high end. VW is just as bad as American. Audi is so-so once you hit the A6. BMW is good on the 5 series and up, 3 series is fairly decent. Benz used to be pretty good, then turned to crap, and is slowly getting better again, I still see them as overrated though.
The fad-cars (mini, landrover, etc) are all crap. Porsche is actually pretty damn good for the money.
Still, if you want a nice car that's good for the money, reliable, cheap to fix, safe and has a nice solid interior, you just get a Japanese car and be done with it.
Over here, it's pretty obvious where the preferences in cars lie.
Going from low to high end. (w = x10,000 RMB)
<15w (these do NOT maintain any significant value second-hand)
Chinese cars - They have gotten MUCH better, but they are still bottom of the barrel
Domestically made US and VW cars - JVs with Chinese companies, they are the next step up, but still shit. It's really either or. You get a shitty Jetta, or a shitty anything US... probably a Chevy or a Buick or a Ford.
Korean/Peugeot/Renault - Kia/Hyundai/Peugeot/etc, it's all the same. Rather hit or miss for quality, but still all better than US.
15~20w (second-hand value, chop it in half)
Domestically made Japanese - Much better control in manufacture, this is the car of the lower middle class.
20~40w
Imported Japanese - There's a premium for it, but it has excellent build quality and it keeps value. 300k spent today will still be 250k in 4 or 5 years. Lexus also fits in here, but they are honestly quite rare on the road. Middle-middle class. US is trying to make some headway here, but they fail quite frankly. Very little in the way of US imports
Imported Korean - There's a market here on the low end, but most will go Japanese.
40w~70w
Imported mid-range and domestic high-end German - Mostly Audi, Benz, BMW. This is what the mid-upper middle class likes. This is also the sweet spot for most makers in the China market. A6L, TT, A8, 3~5 series, X-series SUV, etc. Cadillac and Lincoln want very much to try and win some space here, but are basically failing, because it's still crap.
70w~100w
Imported Italian - Porsche, plain and simple. Cayenne is becoming popular, the Boxster is rather common.
100w~200w
Other high end imports - A8L, Upper range for practical Benz, BMW 7, etc.... most of this is dominated by German cars honestly.
>200w
Imported money-pits - Lambo, Maserati, Aston Martin, Bently, Rolls, Ferrari, R8 etc. etc. This is just pissing money away, at this level you honestly just don't care anymore and it's all about showing off. Very much "new money" cars for those with too much to spend and not enough to spend it on. Cars in this class range anywhere from $320k to $1m, and it's all just showing off at this point.
The problem for the US car industry is this: US cars are built barely better than Chinese cars and they are attempting to compete with the absolute crappiest part of the market. By the time to get to anything approaching "good" in terms of US cars, you are relying on oversized engines to compete. The manufacturing is backwards and focus on producing domestically to avoid the displacement-based import taxes. However, once they hit that price point, they are competing with more efficient and far better-made Japanese imports. Domestic vs. Import? It's a no-brainer. For the handful of US imports that exist, due to the oversized engine displacement, the tax makes it stupid. Why get a crappy US car, when you can get a quality German one? The focus continues to be on driving down the price points to attempt to compete in the 20~40w range, however the engine just kills it. They fail to understand the actual needs of the market and attempt to force the US approach of shitbox on wheels with a big engine onto the Chinese market. Their gizmos are of low quality and break, only to further complicate matters by failing to make the required investments in storefronts for servicing. As such, the only field of competition for the US cars in China is honestly in the sub-15w range, where they compete in the 8~15w bracket against some of the better domestics. This also is not to their benefit. The cars are overpriced and everyone knows it. It takes little more than a quick glance to see that the same car overseas costs less than the domestic version (which has had many things cut out of it), and if you can even find an import version, it's non-competitive with a much better car.
Big powerful engine? For what? You won't be installing a hitch, horsepower means pretty much nothing here as long as you can reliably get to your 120km/h on the highways, more realistically 80~100ish for city driving, and with the city traffic, you'll be lucky to break 50. It's just wasting gas. So, what's left? Financing possibilities I guess, but Chinese are not stupid. Chinese pay in cash to buy cars. Cars go down in value, and financing a depreciating "asset" is absolutely retarded. If they cannot afford it, they buy sub-10. If they have aspirations of getting a better car later, it's second-hand or the cheapest car they can get away with while they save for a much better one.
As such, US cars in China are not seen all that much, and as the domestic brands increase in quality, they will see their market share gobbled up with nowhere to go.... because hey, if you can snap up a quality car for cheap with good equipment and a decent interior, why pay extra for a shitbox on wheels that's only becoming a worse and worse value?
I guess I misread the text initially because I thought it referenced a 97-year auto loan which would seem to make more sense.
Barrick GOLD (ABX) down almost 9%, Amazing.. Complete Sector destroyed by Central Bank
f*ckers.!
Buck Farrick.
The central bankers are DESPERATE to crush any alternative to their fiat pyramid scheme.
DESPERATE.
soft money often crushes "moneyness" out of hard money
it's a market phenomenon, the softer, the higher the volatility of it's concurrents
Oh for the day when one or two, or maybe a 1000 people, with nothing left to lose, start a great new youth in asia program for central bankers and fed gov employees and leaders.
... all these car loans will be spun into AAA securities and bought by helicopter benny for keeps. I see no problem here at all.
Already are a lot securitized along with CC debt.
Interesting. Where is that documented?
"Consider that in 2012, lenders sold $18.5 billion in securities backed by subprime auto loans, compared with $11.75 billion in 2011, according to ratings firm Standard & Poor’s."
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/04/great-news-subprime-auto-loans-up-...
Who is this "we" you speak of?
A new car to me is about 5yrs old with 50,000 mi, paid for in full with Benny Bucks. I will not participate in their game if @ all possible.
The cars must preserve their value better than before thats the only explonation i can come up to.
Beause used cars are in short supply (higher demand for used, more people holding onto their cars, cash for clunkers, etc) the prices on them are increasing. So naturally banks look at the market for used cars today to determine the value of new cars tomorrow.
I can't see anything going wrong there...
Why everyone so negative. For most this will be a 97 mortgage payment.
/Sarc.
Ron Insana and Steve LIESman toking heavily on the hopium hookah together on CNBC.
Maria joining in. Turn on the fans! I can't see their faces from all the smoke they're blowing!
... and don't forget Paul McCulley... retired hippy from PIMPCO. What a crew!
WAT? He's on CNBC now? LOL
I am the walrus, koo-koo catchoo!
Yeah it's screwy but the trouble I have with car loans and student loan debt is that these are not assets or securitized the way housing was/is by any stretch. So, yes, it's insane and sheeple are foolish suckers but IMO this is not where the Black Swan resides. Okay, ready for slaughter.
The point is, ignorance is a drug many choose, rather than the life giving Light that is available.
People know what to do to stop the insanity. There are those who can make big differences before, and after the collapse. What right-up choices are made is something that burns in each persons heart now. What happens next, is for history to tell.
My next cars buys (RSX's or Mazda3's) will be for less than 10 k$ cash. My last new vehicle (2007) was 11.7 k$ cash. I'm definitely not up with this 31 k$ loan thing.
But the wife's pissed that I'm not dropping for even a used Juke, so life's not all good.
Stay on target, stay on target!
What happens if you sell your new car on Craiglist for cash whilst still owing money? Does the bank have the right to take the car from the new buyer?
Yes
You don't get the title until the loan is paid off.
You are driving "The Bank's Car" until then. Who's going to pay you for the car when you can't give them a title?
You could sell the entire car on ebay for parts. And claim it was stolen.
Sure, that is why they call them "Chop Shops". Break the car down into parts and report it stolen.
It is also insurance fraud - a felony - but plenty of people are doing it.
If you're gonna do that, why buy? Just get a rental, chop it, sell it off, claim it lost, pay the deductible, then take the profits to buy a decent car in cash.
Repeat after me: Dear Joe Sixpack, you will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER own an automobile again.
That's leasing.
Goldman Sachs calls them "muppets."
Nice article! But as stated WHEN does this ponzi end... It's impossible to put a date to it, it all depends on trust. The problem is that very few people really understand how the system works and from the ones that do actually understand it, most have an incentive to keep it alive...
Hard to say. I think it will start as little "fires" here and there. Breakouts in the hood when EBT gets funny. Protests here and there as pension funds blow up, unions get bodyslammed. Etc. The size, frequency and violence increasing (along with the responses) until something big pops... some sort of polarizing moment.
NO.
Next question.
EDIT
YES.
Next question.
The stage is set for complete, total full spectrum World domination from The Global Elite. Understand the core reason these Criminals continue to rape, pillage and steal wealth is though Illusion/Cover. We are not THE UNITED STATES but we are The United States of America. It is not The Constitution of The United States, it is The Constitution For The United States of America. Notice the difference. Do you see the Cover/Illusion.
These Criminals have been hiding behind the Corportate version of The Constituiton. Get it? That's the Cover and the reason behind their Crimes Against Humanity and The American People. Ask yourselves, why CIA propaganda, misinfomation/disinfomation is so good? Because it works. And the Elite own the media and have it staffed with their CIA agents/Council of Foreign Relation stooges like Andersen Cooper and Dianne Sawyer. The PsyOp runs deep, very deep.
The American people can continue to stay divided and blame the puppets Obama/Bush. Like they have any say in the matter. Both parties are the same sides of the same coin, bought and paid for a long time ago by The Elite Orligarchs. These Criminals sold their souls long ago.
So, continue to follow their lies, cover stories and false narratives such as Osama Bin Laden. A convenient CIA funded and trained Operative, code name Tim Osman. Sorry, But I digress.
Divide and Conquer. That's the Elite's game. That very uncomfortable deep down in the pit of my stomach feeling you feel . I've had that very same feeling since I was a child.
Total Complete Full Spectrum World Domination. Via The City of London. The financial location of The Banksters, which Wall Street is just an extension. They own the Military, Media and have put forth hundreds of years worth of planning to complete their goals of the aforementioned.
It began with The Fascist Patriot Act which morphed into The Military Commissions Act, John Warner Defense Act, NDAA, PD51, Torture, Illegal Wire Tapping etc..etc... You get the picture? We're dealing with pure Evil, which cannot be reasoned or negotiated with. Their goal was to break the sovereignty of The United States along with our good men and women of the Military while simultaneously ushering in their NWO protective force of Their Global Military/Police Force to protect their Corrupt system/Crimes Against Humanity. We're just their Debt Slaves. Divided and Conquered.
-Miggy
"So, continue to follow their lies, cover stories and false narratives such as Osama Bin Laden. A convenient CIA funded and trained Operative, code name Tim Osman. Sorry, But I digress.
Divide and Conquer. That's the Elite's game. That very uncomfortable deep down in the pit of my stomach feeling you feel . I've had that very same feeling since I was a child"
Funny thing about the spins of illusions and lies; they take lots of words to cover up what is the basic truth. The heart knows truth in all languages.
The one saving graceful thing about truth is, it takes little to express what is well said in the Polished Stones of Time Immortal. They could be as simple as:
United We Stand...
Divided We fall...
Family and Community...will save us ALL!
Took me about 35 years to get to that point. I guess I'm a little slow...
I might have to spring for that fully-loaded, 2013 Chevy Impala, now that I can afford it under a 97-month loan! Dealer said he'd give it to me for sticker price.
Maybe you can get a Japanese bank to give you a multi generational car loan.
They did it for realty.
That way you can give your kids a bag of rust, and a Note.
Call it an ObozoLoan.
Hello WC,
The problem with that is the banks do not loan money anymore and only hoard it as part of the plan to slowly choke America, thus weakening her and then going for the final solution of more world-war to kill off many many souls on board the planet. All for the bankster profits of course.
Why did the rockefellers move to Fiji?
"Maybe you can get a Japanese bank to give you a multi generational car loan."
No body wants the radioactive japanese cars anywhere in the world. Dock workers refuse to see them contaminate the docks in home ports.
Prolly why the riocketfellers are down in Fiji and others are jumping out of the country in mass now. They are seeking the nuklear free zones that they actually think they can escape the fallout from. Lol...stupid is...as stupid does.
"There's garbage on the sidewalk
Highways in the backyard
Police on the corner
Mortgage on the car
Mortgage on the car"
Creedence Clearwater Revival "Ramble Tamble"
Sell cars, buy silver.
If I had any, I would consider that.
FROM RUST TO cradle....
DOWNPAYMENTS UNTILL... your car hits zero resellvalue...
That's fucked up. really...
you need to sell your car at least every 4 years to get anything for it...
But didn't you buy a €3200 bumper recently....
They didn't disclose the % of ITIN* loans either
*ITIN is a SS# for illegal aliens
Its a great way to clear the books of old upsidedown unrecoverable car loans and pass off the new debt to the Japs to boot (You know they're financing Toyota sales) her pension fund is also investing in her car & debt rollover loan
what's her name now robo-signing car loans
extend and pretend baby
Maybe Linda Green?
After too much debt, debt becomes like a wage, or a foodstamp. A right to own a car, a right to consume. The rights have overthrown the duties by far, the outcome is obvious. Thatcher was a bitch, but that god damn mummie only took 30% of the supposed rights.
The world has a long way to go down bitchez. In consumables.
This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
So delinquencies are at record lows and used car values are at record highs, so therefore they want to take more risks...
Can we have the death penalty for stupidity back please? All this safety campaigning has to stop. No seatbelt legislation, no safety at work legislation, no gun legislation, no drink driving legislation.
"This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
Look Ma No Hands
Still better than the 100 year mortgages. Coming here soon to keep this bubble going.
I'll take two!
In my area, the bankers are making good money financing land for the car dealers to display more inventory on. We live in a brave new world.
Why can't we pay $1 per day for the next 100 years.
why would you even consider a loan that long?
you end up paying 50k for a 30k car who's blue book value by the end of loan is only 5k,which means you might get 1k trade in value...that's all if you survive to the end of the loan, which is not a certainty if your being offered such terms in the first place. 2 years in you get repo'd and now you've not only got no ride, but you also still owe the bank a shitload of money.
why in the hell would you do that?
I think I'll just keep rolling around in my beater, the idiots who sing on to this type of stupidity are welcome to there status symbols.
<sarc> The answer to "why in the hell would you do that" is because you can write the $60k off your taxes, drive it to work and claim it as a business expense.
There are 0% and 1% loans out there. At any rate, don't get caught in a Rule of 78s loan.
And add in maintenance and Insurance.
What I see is a hell of a lot of cars, that just so happens runs off a cliff while parked.
Classic.
Sam Zell on CNBC making Maria Bartiromo blink.
Zell: "The stock market now is like the housing market was in 2006."
Bartiromo: <blink-blink> "That scares me what you are saying."
Zell: "Well, all you hear and what you talk about each day is the market going up and up, all time highs, which is what the housing market did back in 2006."
Bartiromo: <blink-blink>
It's all about cash flow....the lower the cash on hand, the longer the flow needs to run.
It's so nice that they are accommodating our poverty situation.
/sarc
I own 2 cars, both of them running in good shape and paid for. Never had a car loan, never will.
If your car is your home,this isn't such a bad deal right.
<s>
not until they foreclose
What if you drive the car to Mexico and points south and don't come back? (while your spending your SSI in Costa), Or just get your Path to Citizenship papers for all your family to get a new car and sell it back "home".
More credit is fuel for a bull market. Enjoy it while it lasts. Try to make some money. This is another cycle, and we are not near the end of it. Play ball. For those that have missed the point of investing, it is to not be poor. If you are poor but proved correct in 20 years you have still lost the game. But I'm sure your dog will still love you.
That works for as long as credit is created faster than it is destroyed. There comes a point where this is no longer possible, when the amount to be created first strains and then completely breaks all credulity, and that is the end.
8 year auto loans. I wonder when they're going to start doing reverse mortgages on payed off used cars? We're officially in the matrix.
Technically, they already do.
https://www.pnc.com/webapp/unsec/Blank.do?siteArea=/pnccorp/PNC/Home/Per...
Historical perspective from Uncle FRED: http://tinyurl.com/btzs7xz
You guys don't understand, IT'S CALLED THE RENT-A-CENTER PRICING MODEL!!!
Sell a $600 TV for $25 a month for 72 months.
Damn, bitch, I just gots me a fitty inch flatscreen for $25 a month, for $35 a month they threw in a laptop. Fuck, they gots some damn fine home theeter seats wit cupholders. Only $15 a month mo. Fo fitty bucks I gots me a whole home theeter. Jamal gonna be jealous.
Signed dat contract fo $50 a month fo 72 months, shit, I can affo'd $50 a month with my EBT. Shit, I can affo'd $250 a month easy, maybe I gets dat hot tub too, damn fine BBQ grill.
And some iCrap!
And some Sudafed and a two liter Dr Pepper. Shake and Bake brother!
Calamity is certainty. Plan and prepare accordingly!
You know, it gets harder and harder to teach your kids fiscal responsibility when debt peddlers are throwing loans out like a groupie throws her panties to the band (not like I know anything about that...really)
I bought my last car for cash at an auction. Meanwhile, my kids ask why we drive a 97 Toyota Camry, while his friend gets driven around in a brand new Chevy Camero. I just tell him, I own this car, and the bank owns his friend's parents car.
I can tell he still wants the Camero tho. It's a battle to keep my kids grounded in reality, while everyone else is signing their lives away and driving shiny new cars, and living in over-mortgaged houses. Sigh....
@ misnomer.. I feel you brother same thing here.. We prevail in the end .
Not completely sure that "misnomer" is a "brother", given some knowledge about throwing "panties" to a band. Just sayin.
does everyone understand the real reason we have 97mth loans....?........when the illegal aliens we gave the loan to go back to mexico and sell the new car and never pay the loan, the banks have 97 months before they have to book a loss.
this isnt about the poor...it is about the banks.
And to keep the car manufacturers from shutting down (channel stuffing with an interesting twist).
No Problem... Sounds great! - Buy moar GM (and AIG while your at it) We can print more money and... it won't cost the (taxpayer) buyer "a single dime".
Semantics; it's not what you pay or say, It's all a matter of context. Notice... no dimes involved...
And I can't begin to tell you how much confidence and trust I have in _______________
We've run the numbers time and time again and it has always been cheaper for us to drop a new motor or new transmission in a car than buy new. Around 250,000 and 300,000 miles and we consider buying new. If people would consider the cost of ownership rather than just the car loan they'd open there eyes. Insurance, license, taxes ( at least in Cali) are astronomical on a new car. In the past we saved every year some money to buy our next car in cash. Thanks to Bernank's inflationary policies, we are unable to do this any more. I'm sure he would like us to join the debt club and stimulate the economy but we chose making our cars last longer instead. Sorry Ben.
Miffed;-)
A financial reporter on the radio yesterday talking about 8yr car loans said this is a sign that the economy is improving. CBS radio, WSJ reporter. wtf?!
Hey ZHers,
As a former risk manager for a certain large financial entity (of a central orientation) , I am going to be writing a book about savers and takers. Please don’t be shocked if I say it will be critical of certain aspects of our current financial system.
The general outline of the book will be that an upcoming struggle is emerging in civil society. It will be between those who have money but lack the political and financial power to defend it, and those who have the political clout to take it.
The savers and the takers.
This will happen because the capitalist system has been turned into a financialist system. The economy is no longer served by the banks and financial institutions. We are now at a point where the banks force the economy to serve them. Those who benefit are the financial class, their servants in the political class and the large international organizations such as the EU, the IMF and the World Bank. Those who suffer are the rest who are trapped in the system and cannot find the means to escape it – but they do have small amounts of saved money or equity.
Who are the savers? In short, it is those people who look to their own future and have taken decisions to set aside “value” from today and hold it for use tomorrow. This includes those with savings deposits, pension funds (401K, RRSP, ISA etc) and those who have equity in their homes. It also includes those who hold small physical amounts of precious commodities such as silver, gold and palladium.
The takers are those governments with unsustainably high debt levels and high levels of unfunded future liabilities. In cooperation with them are the major international banks that have over leveraged themselves as well as supra-international institutions such as the EU.
This meme – savers and takers – will shape much of the political and economic discourse over the next few years. The existing examples of where this has occurred have been Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. How this all plays out is not clear, but there are lessons to be learned about the limits of the individual and potential social unrest.
You can see the rest of an article which describes the outline of the book at: http://tinyurl.com/dxsqjbe
or at
http://economicsfortherestofus1.blogspot.ca/2013/04/savers-and-takers-new-fault-lines-and.html
If you have any comments, ideas or whatever, feel free to leave comments and I will try and answer them. Send the URL to friends if you think this is a worthy project.
The Honest Ex-Banker
The bankers can steal my money by printing more (literally or digitally), but how can they steal the value of precious metals held in physical possession?
i have a name for these characters
hofjuden and shtadlans
This is how it sounds like if we just replace 'car'with 'home' (auto with housing, ...):
(...)
Such long term loans can present consumers and lenders with heightened risk. With a six- or seven-year loan, it takes home-buyers longer to reach the point where they owe less on the home than it is worth. Having “negative equity” or being “upside down” in a home makes it harder to trade or sell the home if the owner can’t make payments.
Hmmm, sound familiar?
home builders have mixed feelings about long-term loans. They allow consumers to buy more expensive—and profitablehomes . But long loans may keep some people from replacing their homes, cutting into future sales.
I love how THAT is what they are concerned about.
Experts say there is an appetite for more risk because banks see limited downside in auto lending. The delinquency rates on home loans are near record lows, and used home values are at record highs. And if a buyer defaults, the bank can repossess and sell homes with limited losses.
Again, sound familiar?
Melinda Zabritski, director of housingcredit for Experian, said the greater availability of credit is helping the surge in new home sales. The percentage of subprime loans isn’t far below the record level of 2007, and the length of loans is growing, she said.
(...)
SCAARY
We have 50 year home loans, if you're interested...
People live longer, cars last longer. What's the problem?
It gives people greater opportunity to consume more today, and banks to get a greater spread.
Happy days indeed!
So long as gas doesn't skyrocket and Obamacare cause the average life expetancy to drop 20 years, we're good.
The problem? If you start paying at 18, you'll finish at 68, past retirement age... at the same time, house is guaranteed only for 5 years... in the mean time you have to pay for all the repairs past that time, compliance with whatever regulations, taxes, insurance, if you don't want to risk ending up paying for rubble - you name it... and you'll end up paying god knows how much more than the asking price. To top it all off, you likely won't be able sell it, even if you could, because everyone else will also still be stuck with paying their own; and because of that you won't be able to take a job across the country, even if unemployed, because you just can't afford nor to "commute" every day nor relocate (not to mention your family) and pay the two locations; which is why there may be (there are) unfilled open jobs at one place, while at the same time there's rampant unemployment in the same line of work. That's pretty much it, but don't take my word for it...
Not sure why anyone is surprised at this Tyler(s).
The only way the homey who lives on the street can get into a new Mercedes or BMW is with a 97 month loan.
He doesn't have a place to live, but he has no trouble getting a sleeping bag for the back of his 328i.
No worries as long as he makes his payments.
i'm a star in the nba. i'm not a homey no mo'
The 100-year zero down, zero interest house loan is around the corner. No joke.
I think they had multigenerational mortgages in Japan. Sure worked out well for them
Miffed;-)
In Sweden they have infinite mortgages. In fact, the average mortgage term is 200 years.
Wow! Really? At what interest rates?
House boats. I wanna houseboat with a 30 year fixed rate in Marina Del Rey.
we've come a long way, baby !:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZAGL2M_Us
I like interest only mortgages. I'm collecting payments on a few now. When the balloon payment becomes due I renew them, if the borrower has been good, and if they pay the renewal fees.