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Old 06-12-2007, 05:27 PM
polkaface polkaface is offline
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Default Re: Taking out a prosper loan to buy stocks

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If he was borrowing at 12% to lend at 18% we would call it arbitrage and I would consider it to be pretty clever.

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This isn't arbitrage, not is it particularly clever.

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I agree, arbitrage is riskless, borrowing at 12% to loan back to others at 18% is not riskless.
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