'Rich Dad, Poor Dad's' Robert Kiyosaki Says He's $1.2 Billion In Debt Because 'If I Go Bust, The Bank Goes Bust. Not My Problem' - eviltoast
Robert Kiyosaki, a best-selling author and seasoned investor, has a distinct philosophy on debt and investment. In a Nov. 30 Instagram reel, Kiyosaki elaborated on his debt philosophy, highlighting a critical distinction between assets and liabilities. He said many people use debt to buy liabilities, while he uses debt to purchase assets. To illustrate his approach, Kiyosaki said his luxury vehicles, like a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce, are fully paid off, categorizing them as liabilities rather th
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    if you’ll ask a question?

    But if you’re referring to the 2007-08 financial crisis caused by MBS going tits up, you’ll have to do better than that, since MBS’s were packaged loans to lots of individuals. Each individual loan was risky because of the sub-prime market being largely unregulated at the time, however, it was assumed the risks were acceptable because the loans that didn’t go up were profitable to offset them.

    The problem with that, of course, was that the entire industry kept ramping up sub-prime loans building up a slow, but increasingly high risk of total collapse on the value. but this is an entirely different situation than giving one guy a billion dollar in loans. And you’ll note, that the MBS’s were backed with collateral in the form of houses that they subsequently foreclosed on. (and later sold for much more in profit, while also getting bailed out by the government.)

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      You got two explainations. 1 the banks didn’t know what was going to happen, despite all the obvious signs, in which case they have no idea what they are doing 2 they knew exactly what they were doing and engineered a crisis for a bailout and market dominance.

      So do you want your friends to be fucking morons or fucked up?

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        or do you want to stop confusing issues here?

        '07-08 crisis is a fundamentally different scenario that built over time. The toxic assets totaled something like 1 trillion; they were built over time, and the problem rose when home values stopped going up. let me compare the orders of magnitude on the debt that caused that crisis vs this:

            1,200,000,000 (Kiyoski's debt)
1,000,000,000,000 (Toxic assets in the great recession)

        Do you see the difference now? It’s a nice whataboutism, but it’s fundamentally irrelevant. the only thing that’s going to get fucked is Kiyoski, and the people who work for him. The difference between a billion and a trillion is… about a trillion. more preciesly, .1%.