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Walking time-bomb.
A person whose behaviour is erratic and totally unpredictable is a walking time-bomb.
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"What this is is a student loan time bomb that is actually already exploding under the government".
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The loan bubble is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode, just like the housing mortgage crisis.
Commercial loans may be a ticking time bomb.
Last year's subprime-fueled gridlock in the credit markets even spread to high-quality debt, however, as investors realized that the re-packaging and re-distribution of risky loans could signify a ticking time bomb in all corners of credit.
As the securitization and CDO markets exploded in the 2000s, credit derivatives linked to CDOs stuffed with subprime-loans became financial time bombs.
For those who took out the loans in late 2004 and early 2005, "their payment time bomb is about ready to explode," he said.
A policy to reduce the $1.6 trillion time bomb to help spur commercial loans and increase employment awaits the attention of the officials at the Bernanke Fed.
(Years later, WaMu was accused by a United States Senate investigative committee of igniting a "mortgage time bomb" by making thousands of subprime loans that were destined to go bad).
That is a ticking time bomb as U.S. home prices weaken in the wake of the subprime loan crisis because it means that relatively affluent borrowers might not stick around once their equity turns negative, potentially beginning a vicious circle of home abandonments that push down prices and encourage new defaults.
In fact, if the federal government used these types of tax breaks to take on this trillion-dollar time bomb, one can envision a system in which anyone could crowdfund their student loan debt.
It has been a ticking time bomb.
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