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Re:Upgrade your jail cell for a price by username223 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:07PM (#13832969)
"Vitality default swaps?" ;-) I'm sure someone on Wall Street is already working on it.
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Re:Upgrade your jail cell for a price by kevinpet on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:23PM (#13833159)
Not specific to inmates, but in general, yes, investors are willing to make money from buying unwanted life insurance policies. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/07/unwanted_policies...
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Re:Upgrade your jail cell for a price by username223 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:51PM (#13833464)
Color me not surprised. There are probably "synthetic collateralized death obligations" as well, though I'm sure they have a different name.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/syntheticcdo.asp

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