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Dana El-Kurd

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

We also know this, which is you go into a bunch of debt to buy something else.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

And then there's credit risk transfer, which we know that one, too.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

It's the betting market.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

We're supposedly swapping the risk by both of you two are now betting on whether this thing is going to fail.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

Yep, and it's fun, too.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

So this is a thing that used to be talked about more and isn't now, but most of the world's corporations are also basically this now.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

And this has been a thing for a while, but it's like the auto manufacturers don't make their money off of cars.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

I mean, they sort of do.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

They make some money off cars, but most of what they make their money off of is the Ford finance company.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

Which is like the auto loans thing.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

And then the auto loans thing trades a bunch of like, does all of this other financial bullshit to make money.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

I don't think that's a good idea.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

That's what capitalism is.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

So everything, everything is fully reliant on this like.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

Stupid gambling bullshit.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 225

Emperors wearing no clothes economy.