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IbogaProject

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15. What matters is the amount traded each week

Reply to BadgerKid (Reply #8)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 02:17 PM

Apr 2025

These are held and the active market is much smaller compared to the total face value. This will start to have problems, but that would be the endgame as they want to get their money back from them.

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Yes but when the shit hits the fan economy wise, even the smaller pieces begin to matter. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #11

What matters is the amount traded each week IbogaProject Apr 2025 #15

They are on the "lower" end of the foreign holdings BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #13

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