The Debt Crisis and How We Got Here. How you can solve your personal debt crisis.
April 30, 2009 by
Filed under Bankruptcy, Debt Elimination, Debt Managment Plans, IVA
We are in a state of crisis when it comes to debt we’ve accumulated. Many people are asking the question ‘how did this all happen?’ While you might think the answer is complex and difficult to understand it’s really not. Almost like a maths formula, the debt crisis that we now face played itself out in the form of an equation in which the final answer added up to less than zero and tons of debt. Here’s how it works. World wide companies and large corporations sit atop the global financial pyramid.
As most of the global economy is run on a capitalist idea of financial gains and large profits, those companies want to show just how well they are doing and how much money they are making so that investors will put even more money into those companies. So, they have a huge incentive to show the highest margins of capital profit every few months.
Unfortunately, there’s only so much actual physical money that they can make. In order to increase profits beyond a realistic number, they begin to loan money out and start counting the money that is owed to them as money that they have already made. Then, when they go to large money lending banks that lend money to big businesses, they produce the balance sheet that says they have the money, so borrowing more and more is okay because they have money coming in to pay the bank back.
The banks know how much they can profit from the interest on those large corporate loans, so they willingly lend out the money. But who are the businesses and corporations relying on to owe them these incredible amounts of money? Answer: the bottom of the financial pyramid – the overwhelming majority of citizens, like you and me who borrow money that they cannot possibly afford to pay back. It used to be that if you couldn’t show how you would pay back a loan, there was no way you could get a credit card or bank to lend you the money.
That changed when lenders not only lowered standards and but knowingly loaned out money to people even they knew could never pay it back. But it looked good on paper and on the balance sheet to have so much money supposedly coming in. So they did it. Now many of those citizens who borrowed more money in a year than they earn in 10 years are left drowning in debt. Everybody at the bottom of the financial pyramid owed money to the part of the pyramid that was immediately above them. When bottom couldn’t support the top, the pyramid crumbled. The enormous amount of money that was lent out should not have been, and most of the money that was eagerly borrowed should not have been either. What is the solution for you?
If you have credit agreements taken out before April 2007 there is a new unenforceable credit agreement claim which is becoming more and more known about here in the UK. It is possible to have your credit finance agreements –agreements such as credit cards, store cards, secured and unsecured loans, car finance agreements, including those with payment protection insurance ( PPI) ‘audited’. They may not comply with the terms of the 1974 Consumer Credit Act and if they do not they are unenforceable credit agreements. This means you can claim to have them written off. That is the balance completely cleared. For NO FEES a solicitor with handle your claim. This is on a no-win-no-fee basis so it is risk free. Many people like me, have found this to be the perfect solution to there debt problems.