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Needs a small loan of a million dollars
It literally is no problem if you already have assets to use as collateral. The problem is that most people don't.
This is the answer, literally this is what millionaires have been doing for ages. It's just unique that the COVID era interest rates were so low that it made it so that 100-thousand-aires could do what millionaires had already been doing.
Well for a couple reasons.
For a while between 2020 and 2022, if you had your home paid for, you could take a mortgage out on that property and invest that money and make more money on the return on investment than the payment for the mortgage and the taxes owed on your profits. That's how low the interest rates were for a while. I have a coworker who refinanced his house for 2% on a 30 year fixed rate, inflation is generally higher than his interest rate. Doing that sort of thing, taking a loan out on one house to invest with, is stupidly speculative but I wouldn't be surprised if people did it.