The way financing works is that you make an educated guess about how likely somebody is to pay you back and make sure that on the average you are right...
It turns out that I've read enough and written enough financial software that I actually can grasp the big picture here from all the details. And I figured that, given some questions I've heard from friends and the current fiscal crisis, I should put fingers to keyboard and write a little about how it all fits together. I'm not going to write about how you should make money... I'm just going to explain where things come from and how the big pieces of the system work.
So, we're finishing up our move. And I threw out and/or got rid of a lot of stuff so far. And sometimes I think to myself, 'gee, why can't I just break the cycle of stuff and have only enough possessions that would fit into a single Econoline cargo van?'
So I've gotten into some flamewars with folks about spammer politicians with people who don't seem to grasp points until they've gotten hit on the head. So I figure I'll write a nice post on the subject and make it sound reasonable and not have to bother finding new and clever ways to call them an idiot...
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