freebee56

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by freebee56 3y ago
West Virginia has a smaller population than Dallas. I don't see why students can't go to another state to get their education.
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by freebee56 3y ago
That is good to know. My only experience with this stuff was in university where someone defaulted on a credit card from a big five bank. They called them up and overall managed the process pretty well.
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by freebee56 3y ago
I wonder if a low quality debt collection system is a uniquely American phenomenon. In Canada I had never heard of this happening.
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Credit Card Debt Collection(bitsaboutmoney.com)
70 points by freebee56 3y ago|21 comments
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by freebee56 3y ago
There is no direct linkage. Since the Chinese capital account is closed by definition the Chinese central bank is holding on to foreign assets with yuan liabilities. When the exporter gets paid the central Bank creates offshore yuan which
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by freebee56 3y ago
I live in NJ and in work downtown Manhattan. No one is commuting by car into downtown Manhattan. The rich take a helicopter. PATH is $5 per person roundtrip without discount. The only people (with enough time on their hands) going to that a
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by freebee56 3y ago
There is a huge hype machine on the internet where people want to believe there there are crazy high salaries in other companies. Even though they don't know anyone who works there, interviewed or otherwise even bothered to look into
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by freebee56 3y ago
"It’s a long-buried part of South Korean history" This is factually wrong. The geopolitical driven sex trade is a big issue in common Korean discourse (e.g. newspapers, social media, politics, etc). I would say that it and the his
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Peter Thiel Says British Affection for NHS Is Stockholm Syndrome(bloomberg.com)
20 points by freebee56 4y ago|13 comments
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by freebee56 4y ago
The whole sequence of: business wants change to curb > asks state officials for permission > state official reviews request> state official send business decision is predicted on the following: - there is substantial value to cr
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by freebee56 4y ago
These numbers are wildly inflated. the official corporate rental sector in NYC s actually very small (most properties are condos/coops) owned by small scale landlords. That 5k number is the price that a (often foreign) company would pa
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by freebee56 5y ago
If you like cold weather and having lots of green space Canada has a large number of tech jobs that pay well by European standards. For someone with skills and/or education a work visa is VERY easy to get. My family member is an immigr
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by freebee56 5y ago
I used to work on options MM desk. Even though BS is not correct in magnitude (e.g. our quants used some black magic to get deltas at the tails, which even then we're quite off from what CME was giving) it is directionally correct. Jus
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by freebee56 6y ago
If you find the buyers yourself you don't have to pay commission for them to buy additional equity in further rounds. Also, as they get more familiar with the business they won't need a big haircut to make the deal. What are you e
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by freebee56 6y ago
The fees charged by brokers on small companies are astonishingly high ( double digits). Anything you can do to find a buyer will save big bucks. Have you considered an esop or maybe mezzanine debt refinancing? Once there is another natural
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by freebee56 6y ago
How is he acomplishing that? You couldn't do that in the US unless you had a C2C contract
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by freebee56 6y ago
I am sad to read about how many people here underestimate china. What other country has lifted a BILLION people out of poverty in 30 years? What other country built the worlds biggest high speed rail network in 15 years? What other country