{"id":259969,"date":"2025-10-30T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:13:10","slug":"consider-this-from-npr-npr-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259969\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761793990_225_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F49%2Ff4%2F461c943d4137bbb178179d2eeaeb%2F71ed744a-3960-469d-97d1-742294d86699.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>                    (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When companies need a loan, traditionally they turn to a bank.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But increasingly they\u2019re turning to financial firms that are not really banks, but do have a lot of cash. This is called the \u201cprivate credit\u201d market. It has exploded in the past 15 years. It\u2019s now valued at around $2 trillion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Natasha Sarin, president of the Yale Budget Lab and former Biden administration official, argues that these private credit firms are making risky loans. So risky, that they\u2019ve got her thinking about the 2008 financial crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/29\/nx-s1-5590103\/mailto:considerthis@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This episode was produced by Erika Ryan and Alejandra Marquez Janse, with audio engineering by Andie Huether and Josephine Nyounai. It was edited by Adam Raney and John Ketchum. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption (Photo by Spencer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-259969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}