The Shadow Lenders

di Emeric Corvin (Autore)

K.D Bamon (Narratore)

Emeric Corvin, 2026

Written before the crisis. Published as it arrives. In early 2026, private credit markets began showing the exact stress fractures this book warned about. The $2+ trillion shadow banking system that regulators quietly worried about is now making headlines. If you are trying to understand what is happening, and what comes next, this is the book that mapped it before it broke. Private credit was supposed to fix the last crisis. Instead of fragile derivatives and securitized mortgages, we were promised conservative, senior loans to real companies, held by sophisticated investors who could absorb the risk. Instead of bailouts and bank runs, we were sold a story of “permanent capital,” sponsor support, and dealbydeal discipline. The reality is far more troubling. In The Shadow Lenders: Private Credit, Hidden Debt, and the Next American Financial Crisis, Emeric Corvin pulls back the curtain on the fastest growing and least understood part of global finance. Drawing on regulatory filings, official reports, industry documents, and academic research, he traces how private credit has grown from a niche strategy into a $2+ trillion shadow-banking system that now touches: Life insurers and annuity companies that quietly fund their promises with illiquid, hard-to-value loans. Public pensions chasing yield in complex funds they cannot easily exit or mark to market. Regional and large banks that have lent hundreds of billions of dollars to private-equity and private-credit funds, recreating hidden linkages every bit as real as the structured products that sat on bank balance sheets before 2008. Retail investors who now hold exposure through nontraded business development companies, interval funds, model portfolios, and even 401(k)s labeled as “enhanced income” or “alternative credit.” Along the way, Corvin connects today’s structures to a century of financial booms and busts, from savings and loan failures and the junk-bond era to subprime mortgages.

• Autore: Emeric Corvin
• Narratore: K.D Bamon
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:32:50
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Emeric Corvin
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798240135187