Why Wall Street is calling out ‘echoes’ of the 2008 financial crisis

New York  — 

For months, investors and analysts have kept a close eye on the shadowy corner of finance known as private credit, where alarm bells have stoked fears of a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.

Whether those alarms amount to a handful of isolated bad bets or a more menacing systemic weakness in the $1.8 trillion sector is far from clear. But if the latter is even a remote possibility, it’s worth understanding what the heck is going on.

A quick primer on ‘private credit’

Very simply, the term

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