go bad
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A big reason investors are ditching private credit is because they’re scared its loans are about to go bad.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
“Whatever asset you’re looking at people are on a knife’s edge regarding leverage and that doesn’t have to go bad; that can go very very well before it goes very, very bad,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
Across rebel-held cities and towns, supermarket shelves sit empty while crops wither in inaccessible fields and go bad at rebel checkpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
"I think yes, if people are going to go bad, they go bad, but you can't tar a whole religion based on your prejudices."
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
The pool-level data told you, for example, that 25 percent of the home loans in some pool were insured, but not which loans—the ones likely to go bad or the ones less likely to.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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