Tagged with bonds - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/bonds/feed.rss Tue, 19 Nov 24 15:26:16 +0000 Tagged with bonds - Personal View Talks en-CA Apple: Why they loan another 2.8e+9 €uro while sitting on 155e+9 US$ in cash http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11728/apple-why-they-loan-another-2.8e-9-uro-while-sitting-on-155e-9-us-in-cash Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:13:13 +0000 karl 11728@/talks/discussions A normal person would usually not loan lots of money while sitting on a pile of cash. But a normal person also usually pays taxes, for the better of society. Apple does not. Think about this when considering your next buy - maybe you would like to support companies supporting society at least as much as you do.

Article at Bloomberg.

German article at Manager Magazin.

]]> The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5297/the-faustian-bargain-between-states-and-banks Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:19:03 +0000 agoltz 5297@/talks/discussions
States and banks have made a deal with the devil. Banks buy the sovereign bonds needed to prop states up in the tacit understanding that the states will bail them out in a pinch. But experts warn that this symbiotic arrangement might be putting the entire financial system at risk...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/tacit-bond-arrangement-between-governments-and-banks-endangers-system-a-868971.html

So why not cut out the middleman?

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