by spencer » Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:18 pm
My opinion is that any consumer credit is bad. Take mortgages for example, imagine what will be the house prices if there were no personal mortgages. How would a family who can't save anything and lives paycheck to paycheck afford to buy a house for $400,000 in Toronto for example, if they have to buy the house cash? The house prices would be max 20% of the current prices. All inflation in housing is caused by the fact that anybody, can borrow almost any amount to buy a house with very low or 0% down payment. This is what is driving prices higher - the unlimited creation of new money through debt.
Now business debt is entirely different thing. You are getting business loan for the purpose of producing something and making money in the process. This process will hopefully make you and your lender money, and make the entire society richer.