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Zombies being dead people brought back to life is a concept the op doesnt have to worry about as its not going to happen,the entire concept of zombie apocalypse is pure fantasy.
Zombies are real, they're just formed by people, not people themselves. The zombies amongst us are the dead loans. Loans that will never be repaid. They're just packaged and sold on. They can be in sovereign debt, debt issued by the states or local municipalities, they can be in companies that keep working a dream and selling out to other companies, they can be in personal loans or loans from banks...especially overseas.
The kicker is, they seem to benefit an economy, until their value is revealed. Until it starts crimping an economy's ability to function. I recall looking at a building that was bought at the height of the .com boom. They couldn't rent it at market rates, it would set the value of the building too low for their debt. I recall a division that a group of us wanted to to buy and turn around. They couldn't sell it at market rate because of the goodwill on their balance sheet. I recall looking at one bank's loan books, and debtors would only pay off their debt upon getting a larger loan.
I can't tell you when or if that day of reckoning will come to a head, but an economy grows when it has more people who can take on debt or when the ability of the people there can take on more debt. As we lose workers to welfare programs or underutilization, those debt zombies get that much closer.
Zombies are real, they're just formed by people, not people themselves. The zombies amongst us are the dead loans. Loans that will never be repaid. They're just packaged and sold on. They can be in sovereign debt, debt issued by the states or local municipalities, they can be in companies that keep working a dream and selling out to other companies, they can be in personal loans or loans from banks...especially overseas.
The kicker is, they seem to benefit an economy, until their value is revealed. Until it starts crimping an economy's ability to function. I recall looking at a building that was bought at the height of the .com boom. They couldn't rent it at market rates, it would set the value of the building too low for their debt. I recall a division that a group of us wanted to to buy and turn around. They couldn't sell it at market rate because of the goodwill on their balance sheet. I recall looking at one bank's loan books, and debtors would only pay off their debt upon getting a larger loan.
I can't tell you when or if that day of reckoning will come to a head, but an economy grows when it has more people who can take on debt or when the ability of the people there can take on more debt. As we lose workers to welfare programs or underutilization, those debt zombies get that much closer.
You should post this in the Econ forum, and let them have a go. You can title it Zombies are real, and here.
You should post this in the Econ forum, and let them have a go. You can title it Zombies are real, and here.
Personally I think the fiction posted in the Econ forum is more sci-fi than talking about surviving zombie hordes. The reality is that there's nothing we can do except to be prepared for that other shoe to drop.
What about the mutant zombie biker gangs?
They're a significant constituency of any apocalypse.
Embrace the MZBG!
Don't be a hater...
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