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Customers can buy products without taking out a bank loan, and suppliers can lock down revenues and pricing power.

In recent months, the industrialist has attracted law enforcement scrutiny with investigators probing alleged crimes ranging from diversion of bank loans to money laundering.

For over a decade, total leveraged credit—bank loans, high-yield bonds and direct lending—has equaled roughly 21-25% of gross domestic product.

Are you worried about the health of credit markets after the recent bankruptcies and bad bank loans?

On Blackstone’s conference call executives dismissed these worries as “misinformation,” noting, as others have, that the problems involved bank loans, not private-credit loans.