Which will mark the post-2008 transition from credit disinflation to actual deflation:
We didn’t really need any more confirmations. In recent weeks, as the US economy came to a screeching halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen banks take over $20 billion in reserves in anticipation of a looming default wave (a five-fold increase if not nearly enough based on historical precedent), Moody’s predicting that as many as 30{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} of Americans with home loans – about 15 million households – could stop paying their mortgages if the U.S. economy remains closed through the summer or beyond, with the number of households that have already stopped paying their loans soaring by 1,496{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} in just six weeks, and even JPMorgan in the process of shutting down its entire net interest margin origination platform, by getting out of new loans and HELOCs and boosting the standards on new loans.
These are all clear signs that a wave of mass defaults has started and is about to break all across America as tens of millions of household suddenly lose their jobs.
2008 is when the post-war debt system finally broke. Since then, the Federal Reserve has frantically been kicking the can of consequences harder and harder, until now, when the can finally didn’t move. All of the various estimates are meaningless, but we can be confident that the current system will be replaced, we simply can’t know what the successor system is going to be as it will largely depend upon how the massive pool of existing bad debts are written off.
UPDATE: For those of you who are, apparently, still too stupid to grasp the obvious, THIS IS WHY USURY WAS HISTORICALLY BANNED IN WESTERN SOCIETIES. Because once the debt cycle starts, it ALWAYS ends this way, sooner or later. The only reason it took this long to go terminal is because, for the first time in history, the entire global economy was turned into collateral supporting the credit inflation.