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Re:$3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt by JumpCrisscross on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:05AM (#15727848)
> is to consider it a "call option“

Early termination is an example of optionality. Callable bonds and demand deposits also contain optionality. That doesn’t make them options.

Re:$3 Trillion in Forgotten Debt by jasode on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:56AM (#15728322)
>That doesn’t make them options.

Yes, I know. I was using <quote>"call option"<unquote> as analogy and not a strict legal financial instrument. Sort of like the "Greenspan Put" isn't really a "put option". Or how some might saying investing in Uber is a sort of like a <quote>"call option"<unquote> on future taxi & employee regulations favoring companies like Uber.