I can see this side of the coin. However, I'm guessing a LOT of younger folks are already way over-extended. Housing in particular, not so much corporate property for sure. I've said for years, no way you're 30 years old, have a 750k-1000k house (when 4 years ago the avg price of house was 40% of what they are today in my area), with a new (aka less 2 years old) BMW M3, BMW X5M, F250, Phoenix bass boat and a "Gator" with 3 children. Not unless everybody has a rich daddy who's just giving kids money. Have to be up to eyeballs in debt. Thus, I think a lot of these people bought on ARM because they didn't go through 2007 or the S&L crisis.