3% vs. 60% (Direct Lending vs Mortgages) | Torsten Slok's The Daily Spark | Apollo Global
Apollo: The direct lending market is roughly $2 trillion, or about 3% of total debt outstanding for US households and businesses.
By comparison, mortgages accounted for about 60% of total household and corporate debt at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006.
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