[lbo-talk] Rolling Jubilee

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 9 07:34:29 PST 2012


On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:05 AM, James Leveque <jamespl79 at gmail.com> wrote:


> http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/peoples-bailout/
>
> Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but this sounds a little too good to be
> true. I obviously don't know much about how debt is bought and sold,
> but Strike Debt is saying that they could buy up debt at about 5 cents
> on the dollar, which seems really low. Does anybody have any thoughts
> about how feasible this is?

It could be bought that low, if it's defaulted-on and near-worthless, but they're not going to be able to buy much.

Doug



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