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What is history of equities being called "securities"?
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| Maroon Awkward Dilemma Fanboi | 05/21/15 |
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| painfully honest hell kitty | 05/21/15 |
| irradiated shaky box office quadroon | 05/21/15 |
| sepia stirring wrinkle | 05/21/15 |
| Trip coldplay fan | 05/21/15 |
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Date: May 21st, 2015 3:19 PM Author: irradiated shaky box office quadroon 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: irradiated shaky box office quadroon (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: irradiated shaky box office quadroon (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: irradiated shaky box office quadroon (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: Maroon Awkward Dilemma Fanboi 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: irradiated shaky box office quadroon 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: painfully honest hell kitty 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: irradiated shaky box office quadroon 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: sepia stirring wrinkle (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: Trip coldplay fan 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) |