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Car Repos Are Exploding. That’s a Bad Omen.
barrons ^ | July 8, 2022 | By Lisa Beilfuss

Posted on 07/10/2022 3:30:26 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: RomanSoldier19

Lucky Lopez is a car dealer who has been in the business for about 20 years.

The is just a spot on perfect name for a car dealer!


21 posted on 07/10/2022 3:56:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Fury

Found the guy’s YouTube channel yesterday. He knows a lot about the car business and explains it well. Had an interesting take on Carvana too.


22 posted on 07/10/2022 4:00:03 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: laplata

The Federal Jobs Reports and other economic Federal news is all questionable. Some of it just doesn’t make sense.


23 posted on 07/10/2022 4:00:59 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: Captain Peter Blood
I remember that movie with Darren McGavin in it over 40 years ago.

I was thinking of another movie; "Repo Man"


24 posted on 07/10/2022 4:01:38 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Born in 1950

Loans were extended and not paid. Cars value depreciated but the principal of the loan wasn’t paid down so people were upside down on car loans.


25 posted on 07/10/2022 4:05:51 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Countr)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Link please


26 posted on 07/10/2022 4:07:57 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: carcraft

How soon until Brandon comes out with a repo moratorium? After all, minorities and LGBTQ hit the hardest. /s


27 posted on 07/10/2022 4:19:37 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: chopperk

I agree.

Some fast food businesses are folding because they can’t find anyone who will work.


28 posted on 07/10/2022 4:20:02 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Image forming in my mind of person living paycheck-to-paycheck, suddenly a stimulus check falls in his lap.
What to do? Bank it? Invest it? No, he'll spend it on a new car he can't afford!

Knew a couple like this - both worked, both bought new cars. Suddenly both were laid off. Declared Bankruptcy and the new cars were repo'd. Eventually they found jobs, and both had new cars again! It's a lifestyle, I guess.

29 posted on 07/10/2022 4:21:27 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: MHGinTN

https://youtu.be/EGf-FZP2gEA
Been looking for a car for my daughter, thought this might help you.


30 posted on 07/10/2022 4:22:10 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: SaveFerris

Yep. But they’re not finished tearing it down yet.


31 posted on 07/10/2022 4:22:27 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Then, as chip production kinks are worked out, and new cars start piling up on car lots, and manufacturer incentives to move them out start to balloon, used car prices will whoosh down, triggering panicked dumping by the banks.


I don’t think the chip production “kinks” are ever going away. EVs don’t seem to have any problem with chip availability, and they use (on average) 2X the chips an ICE vehicle does. This tells me the chip shortage is yet another way they are trying to nudge the public away from ICE cars.


32 posted on 07/10/2022 4:24:17 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: carcraft

That is correct. It’s also what happens when a loan repayment period so long that it is impossible for the car value to ever be equal to the loan.

It also happens a lot when buyers are distressed so they buy another car and roll over the loan into the financing of the new car. Common practice for people that are always in over their heads. Lenders still share the blame.

Car loans “should” require sufficient down payment that the value of the loan will not exceed the value of the depreciating car.


33 posted on 07/10/2022 4:26:02 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Zhang Fei

Great assessment on the matter.


34 posted on 07/10/2022 4:26:04 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Americans Pawning Items to Buy Gas, Survive Inflation: Pawn Shop Owners

https://www.newsweek.com/pawn-shop-owner-says-drivers-selling-personal-items-buy-gas-1717156


35 posted on 07/10/2022 4:29:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Crush, smash and obliterate the Liberal New World Order)
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To: Zhang Fei

The crooks only want to hack off the catalytic converters.


36 posted on 07/10/2022 4:31:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: laplata

Very true. Many stores have hiring issues due to handouts and other Govt. bennies. Many people are living free in Section 8a apartments, using SNAP plus more handouts.


37 posted on 07/10/2022 4:31:38 PM PDT by Lumper20 (No more DADT and LGBTQ in OUR MILITARY. No TATOOS. No women in Infantry, Ranger,& SF. )
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To: MHGinTN

On phone now but I’ll try to get it to you tomorrow.


38 posted on 07/10/2022 4:37:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Bobalu
Woo Hoo! See my tagline!


39 posted on 07/10/2022 4:38:00 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Lumper20

We’re probably headed for a depression in 2023. There’s more and more talk of it.


40 posted on 07/10/2022 4:40:35 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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