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A comment on Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory. Parent comment

Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by JetSpiegel on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:03PM (#19640948)
Derivatives, securities and other finacial "products" have no physical backing, they are purely abstract concepts. They don't even exist on paper now, just intangible bytes.
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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by appleiigs on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:19AM (#19641949)
Derivatives are derived from something... they have a notional, underlying, or delivery.
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