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What is history of equities being called "securities"?
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| Deranged Supple Box Office | 05/21/15 |
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| big love of her life dysfunction | 05/21/15 |
| azure gas station | 05/21/15 |
| Galvanic Crawly Spot Hominid | 05/21/15 |
| Rose Pervert | 05/21/15 |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 3:19 PM Author: azure gas station There is nothing secure about equity. It takes after even unsecured creditors. Yet we call attys who deal in equities "securities lawyers". Wtf. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27937124) |
Date: May 21st, 2015 3:20 PM Author: azure gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27937132) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 3:27 PM Author: azure gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27937180) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 7:44 PM Author: azure gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27938941) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:45 PM Author: Deranged Supple Box Office Equities are a subtype of securities (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27939328) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:50 PM Author: azure gas station so? bonds are no different. why did they name any of it securities. they aren't secured. wtf is the history of the word securities. it's a misnomer it seems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27939373) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:54 PM Author: big love of her life dysfunction Security also has the meaning of, "fastened, bound." Maybe it originated in how debtors were bound to the bound to creditors by law, or some shit.
I dunno. I Googled it and nothing came up. |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 8:58 PM Author: azure gas station That's a good guess. Maybe true. I have a feeling it has to do with how they were originally marketed as "secure" or something in the colloquial sense to attract investors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27939436) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:01 PM Author: Galvanic Crawly Spot Hominid (prancing scholar) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27940155) |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 10:16 PM Author: Rose Pervert Earliest corps were joint stock companies that required a royal charter, like the e india company. Bc debt doesn't run against the king or some bs like that they couldn't issue bonds. But holding their stock gave you a ratable secured interest in the cargo of an expedition. Hence 'securities' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2885956&forum_id=2#27940265) |