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michaeljx • today at 7:06 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I saw an article a couple of days ago on one of the popular sites (ft or Bloomberg or something), about how now is a great opportunity to purchase private company credit. Guess this is the submarine https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html


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chollida1 • today at 8:10 PM

Private credit is far different than the debt of a public ally traded company. It is far riskier as those companies can't easily tap the credit or equity markets for new money if they get into trouble the way a public company can.

But the debt we are talking about is not Private credit debt, its completely different animal with far different risk characteristics

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smallmancontrov • today at 7:40 PM

Hah, this is remarkably short turnaround. The OBBB only lifted the ESLR on April 1!

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TZubiri • today at 9:32 PM

Wow, 2 lines in and I realize I already read this article waaay back, before I even knew what a startup was, much less who paul graham was.

The world is a napkin

atlimar • today at 7:23 PM

thank you for this link, all these years on the internet and I had not come across it