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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by chadash on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:20PM (#25784441)
If you have $100 of stock you can’t borrow $100 in cash against that.
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by 0xB31B1B on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:39PM (#25855456)
You can borrow more than 1:1. You can usually leverage up to 3x. This is literally all of modern finance
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