Into the Night
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Why would I say Delaware to mean South Dakota????I think you mean South Dakota.
So?Anyway, a debt does not have to have collateral to be used as collateral.
Correct.If you are a creditor holding a debt, you are considered to hold an asset.
So?You will [possibly] be receiving payments on that debt.
Yes. So? Interbank loans are common. Apparently you haven't figured out what happens with those when there are a lot of defaults. Remember late 2007? Remember how it quickly spread worldwide? Interbank loans defaulting along with the rest of them.You can use that collateral on getting a loan.
Assuming you can find someone willing to give you a loan on that basis. As soon as the 2007/2008 crash hit, those loans rather dried up. They weren't available. No one wanted to voluntarily jump into the sinkhole.So lets say you are a bank, with holding $100 million in mortgages, but there is a run on the bank, and the depositors want $50 million of their deposits back, RIGHT NOW!!! Obviously, you cannot end the mortgages, so instead, you get a loan using the mortgages as collateral. Usually the rate you would pay as a bank is much lower than the mortgage rate, so with any luck, you can still make a profit.

