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Should we worry about falling prime/non-prime yield spreads?

The gap between prime and non-prime yields has fallen in seven of the past eight quarters and by roughly a third over that period. Yet there is little in this data to ring alarm bells. After all, unlike in the mid-2000s, the latest data do not suggest that investors are systematically mis-pricing risk.

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