A Global Consumer Default Wave Is Just Getting Started

  • Early Chinese indicators show a surge in past-due loans
  • Pain will likely spread as unemployment rises across the globe
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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Like millions of people around the world, Zhang Chunzi borrowed money she thought she’d be able to repay before the coronavirus changed everything.