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Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:27PM (#20760704)
> Have $xx,xxx in a checking account at a national bank

At the scales of financial infrastructure, bank deposits are not cash. They are debt issued by banks. The point of collateral is to give a bank’s word weight.

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Re:Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negat... by perl4ever on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:20PM (#20764044)
Or, based on what I read in financial statements, "cash" and "short term securities" kind of blur together.

Cash is more of a general category of things that are suitable to use for similar purposes, than one specific thing.

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