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To: 9YearLurker
The open market is at about 4%. With government interference it's at 5%. Student loans are above that. Credit cards are above that.

This applies for people with or without collateral ~ which is making all the arguments related to collateral look specious in the extreme (as if they weren't already).

Tracking down debtors can be a problem in a country that doesn't even care to track down illegal alien serial killers ~ I can see where you're coming from on that ~ but eventually they trip up and the internet reveals their presence in some manner.

I think it's just a case of lenders not caring to pay the top dollar to the best track and trace folks. They imagine they can get by for cheap ~ maybe spin off that job to some call center in India or something (not to sound cynical, but isn't that what they do these days?)

33 posted on 07/20/2012 5:10:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
The open market is at about 4%. With government interference it's at 5%. Student loans are above that. Credit cards are above that. This applies for people with or without collateral ~ which is making all the arguments related to collateral look specious in the extreme (as if they weren't already).

Where can you borrow money at 4% without collateral? Or even 5%? I know of a few stock exchange listed companies that would like know your secret. In fact, it seems to me that you could make a bit of money by helping to connect lenders who are willing to make multi-decade loans at 4% and students who want loans at less than 6.8% (more or less the current private lender student loan rate).

36 posted on 07/20/2012 5:38:38 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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