The Ultimate Good Deed?

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The Ultimate Good Deed?

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The Occupy Wall Street activists have bought $15m worth, of mainly medical debt, in order to prevent the debtors from being hounded.
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I think the real great thing done here, as stated at the end of the article is highlighting the nature of the debt market. I knew that debts were bought for a fraction of their real price by secondary debt companies. I didn't realize it was bought so cheaply however. assuming it would have been about 20% minimum. 5% is an extraordinary amount though I suppose it reflects the difficulty in collecting the whole of the debt.
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That is pretty cool.
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Does it mean one can ask his friend to buy his debt, then drink the difference together? Or don't you know whose debt you're buying?

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