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Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by skybrian on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:58AM (#22276749)
The question I have is how you know the customers won't cancel their subscriptions when the recession hits, or because a competitor provides the same service for less, or has better service?
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Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by trhway on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:22PM (#22276940)
you can use CDS to insure performance of your high quality A+ "recurring revenue" bonds. It is pretty cheap for high quality A+ bonds.

>>Just need to make sure you don't end up with financers/banks/rating agencies colluding to bundle multiple companies together and sell tranches of the debt (all with a phony A+ rating) to investors/funds...

but that is exactly the point of the securitization and high skill in doing it which would allow to bring all those sweet pension fund money into play. "financers/banks/rating agencies colluding " - it like saying violin and piano players colluding in Metropolitan Opera performance.

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Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by quotemstr on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:25PM (#22276965)
No, that doesn't actually work, because decorrelated risks aren't. Did we learn nothing from 2008?
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Re:Debt is coming to the tech industry by adele11 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:53PM (#22280297)
To push that point further, we had it easy in 2008 because governments used QE to push more money into the economy and prop up banks, but what if they can't grab that free lunch next time?
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