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To: reaganaut1
Trump's first bankruptcy was in 1991 after he borrowed a stupidly irresponsible amount of money to finance that monument to excruciatingly bad taste known as the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.

Wasn't it an arms length transaction? If it was a "stupidly irresponsible amount of money", the people supplying the money made the mistake. It isn't the government's responsibility to prevent people from loaning "stupidly irresponsible amounts of money" to anyone (at least where fraud isn't shown), nor to protect those lenders from suffering the consequences of their own stupid choices on who to loan money to.

Trump had financed the $1 billion project largely with junk bonds, which meant very high interest payments.

High interest rates go along with high risk. If the lenders weren't willing to accept the risk of possible default, they should have just bought US government bonds.

43 posted on 02/16/2016 11:33:52 AM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: Wissa

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The risks are buried deeply, by purpose.

Trump is moral toilet paper.


46 posted on 02/16/2016 11:37:13 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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