Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
by eigenvalue on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:53PM
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Yeah, but in a sharp downturn you get margin called and possibly wiped out if you aren’t careful. A lot more rich people have lost everything from that sort of problem than the number of rich people made even richer as a result of extreme inflation. And Weimar like inflation seems increasingly less of a near term risk considering that German 30 year yields just turned negative for the first time ever today.
Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
by jjeaff on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:23PM
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These ultra high net worth people are getting loans at such low interest rates because the collateral is so much larger than the loan.
If you have $10B in stock, you probably aren't going to borrow so much as to even get close to a margin call in a market downturn.
And in case a superinflation strikes, all those loans are effectively wiped out while they keep the assets (the corporate off-shore hoard might suffer as well though, but it might be sufficiently mobile and well-managed to avoid the worst). If capitalism was a video game, it would get terrible ratings due to utterly botched difficulty scaling.