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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play a pivotal role by buying up mortgages and packaging them to sell to investors, guaranteeing the investors payments even if borrowers default.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

That December, Fitch Ratings agency declared the firm in default.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Fitch cited “existing discord” between the city and the contractors that could lead to further delays in the project and a default on the bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Accordingly, Judge Poland entered a default judgment into the record, which gave Midland Credit Management the right to tread on his bank account and garnish his wages.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

For the bonds to default, he now said, U.S. house prices had to fall, and Joe Cassano didn’t believe house prices could ever fall everywhere in the country at once.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Other countries have fallen victim to debt spirals, where high levels of debt lead investors to demand higher interest rates, in turn fueling more borrowing until eventually a country defaults.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

When equipment is bought on credit, it usually doubles as collateral, or the asset a lender can seize if the loan defaults.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

That would likely keep the obligations off Nvidia’s books initially but put the chip maker on the hook for a portion of the project if an end user of its chips defaults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Then, investors grew alarmed by several high-profile defaults caused by alleged frauds, and by loans made to software companies at risk of disruption by artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The defaults mounted, the bonds universally crashed, and the CDOs composed of the bonds followed.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

He was being summoned because he was being sued by Midland Credit Management for $3,466.63 in defaulted credit card debt.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Responses were consistently vague and often defaulted to the argument that compute could be rented to third parties through Tencent Cloud if AI applications underperform,” Su says after the company’s earnings call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Many of the states with the highest concentrations of defaulted borrowers are in the South, an Associated Press analysis found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

As England goalkeeper Pickford collected the ball, Mora defaulted to returning to his natural position, failing to close the gap.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Loans either were paid off or were defaulted upon.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Starting in June 2025, with the pause having ended nine months prior, borrowers began defaulting again for the first time since the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

On defaulting people into annuities, I am a bit less enthusiastic.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

This shows you your financial account history but does not give you a credit score, which is the risk assessment that lenders use to assess your chances of defaulting.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Two big loans that were made during the postpandemic boom in private-equity buyouts are defaulting, whacking some private-credit funds and ratcheting up losses in the already troubled corner of Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

It wasn’t immediately obvious—after all, the best way to avoid the risk of General Electric’s defaulting on its debt was not to lend to General Electric in the first place.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis