ERTHS CASE FILE 002 · GLOBAL · PRIVATE MARKETS
STABILITY WITHOUT VISIBILITY
How private credit can appear resilient while making financial risk harder to measure.
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- Private credit’s calm reported values may reflect patient capital — or delayed recognition of loss. Loans are periodically valued, not continuously priced, so deterioration can lag reality.
- The market’s true size is contested — official estimates range from $1.5–2.5 trillion+, because no single boundary or authority sees the whole system at once.
- Flexibility cuts both ways. Amendments, extensions and payment-in-kind interest can rescue viable borrowers — or quietly convert losses into obligations pushed further into the future.
17 MIN READ — SEP 2026
- Great Britain’s grid queue held over 700GW of “claims,” not projects — chronological priority let unready capacity block viable developments for years.
- TMO4+ reform replaced “first come” with “ready and needed,” cutting the pipeline by hundreds of gigawatts — but reclassification isn’t yet proof of faster delivery.
- The speculative pressure didn’t disappear, it relocated — demand-side applications (data centres) tripled within a year once the generation queue was filtered.
14 MIN READ — AUG 2026
INSTITUTIONAL BRIEFINGS
BRIEFING: How new constraints emerge after adjustment→
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BRIEFING: Adjustment is not the same as resolution→
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BRIEFING: where thresholds are forming→
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