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Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment (arstechnica.com)
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My favorite comment on the article is “The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Traditionally, you need to find someone to loan you money with the bond as collateral. Then you promise that person the bond as repayment of the debt + interest, with the expectation that you can re-buy the bond at a future date for much less than you could today.

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