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‘Tip of the negative equity iceberg’: A record number of Americans are grappling with $1,000 car payments and many drivers can't keep pace — stay ahead by dodging these 2 loan mistakes
monewise via msn ^ | 2/24/23 | Bethan Moorcraft

Posted on 02/26/2023 2:25:29 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

With a record 16% of American consumers paying at least $1,000 a month for their cars, it's no surprise that drivers are starting to fall behind on their bills.

The percentage of borrowers at least 60 days late on their car payments is higher today than it was during the peak of the Great Recession in 2009.

There are multiple factors driving this trend. Car financing costs are climbing as the Federal Reserve continues its aggressive campaign of interest rate hikes to combat persistent inflation.

At the same time, used car values are dropping, leaving debtors at risk of owing more money than their cars are actually worth.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; bideneffect; bidenflation; bidenomics; economy; payments; subprime; wboopi
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To: RomanSoldier19
...leaving debtors at risk of owing more money than their cars are actually worth.

This happens EVERY time you drive a 'new' car off of the showroom floor!

161 posted on 02/27/2023 4:29:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lizavetta

Uh... products of our schools?


162 posted on 02/27/2023 4:29:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gen.Blather
the free Covid money...

Someone (or many) should be in jail over this false advertising.

163 posted on 02/27/2023 4:31:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mware

nice short game plan.


164 posted on 02/27/2023 4:32:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dragnet2

two words: dave ramsey


165 posted on 02/27/2023 4:32:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Round Earther

The market is “correcting” it hasn’t fully corrected yet.

When idiotic companies like Carvana are gone and no longer grossly overpaying for used cars because their “algorithms” tell them paying more for a used car than a new car is smart... that’s when sanity will start to return.

It’s getting better, but the whole auto market has not fully corrected from the insanity of the past several years yet.


166 posted on 02/27/2023 4:34:21 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

167 posted on 02/27/2023 4:37:34 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: joma89

but this takes discipline


168 posted on 02/27/2023 4:43:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: steve86

yup

way too many owners fear something ‘happening’ to their 2-3 old car and want to offload the worry.


169 posted on 02/27/2023 4:44:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

ya need one if yer neighbor just got one!!!


170 posted on 02/27/2023 4:46:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
Only taxes since then.

Spelchunk got RENT wrong.

171 posted on 02/27/2023 4:47:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Round Earther

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/78196


172 posted on 02/27/2023 4:48:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Disambiguator

cash fer clunkers


173 posted on 02/27/2023 4:49:17 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dragnet2

6 decades ago your wages were 1/10 of what they are now.


174 posted on 02/27/2023 4:50:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cold Heart

I’ve hauled goats in the back of my Grand Cherokee.


175 posted on 02/27/2023 4:53:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cold Heart

the kids will make a bigger mess than the sheep!


176 posted on 02/27/2023 4:54:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cold Heart

...but they won’t eat the headliner.


177 posted on 02/27/2023 4:54:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HamiltonJay

Here’s all the cars that Carvana has stacked up just east of Indianapolis...

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8225152,-85.9206277,1401m/data=!3m1!1e3

Zoom in for full effect!


178 posted on 02/27/2023 5:00:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cherry

Mileage varies for different people. My wife will drive no more than 12,000 in a year. I on the other hand will easily do 30,000 miles a year.


179 posted on 02/27/2023 5:18:33 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: Drew68

My current daily driver is an ‘05 F350 6.0L V8 Turbo-diesel. Paid cash for it 2 years ago, religiously maintained.

Looks like new, runs like new, rides like new. I’ve had a few people who want(ed) to buy it and I’d sell for $28-$30k. If I did that, I’d buy a used Toyota and pay cash for it.


180 posted on 02/27/2023 5:20:42 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)
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