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Minsky moment and the three types of borrowers

Types of borrowers

- Hedge borrowers - cashflow can pay both debt and interest
- Speculative borrowers - cashflow can pay only interest. Needs to regularly refinance to repay debt
- Ponzi borrowers - believes future appreciation can finance both debt and interest

Crash happened when too high a percentage of borrowers in the system are Ponzi borrowers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky