It does act as a secure, transferable store of value. In the event that you have to flee your home country or its financial system is compromised you could go anywhere and retain some portion of your personal wealth.
At a minimum the last few on the mood list (depressed obsessive thoughts, apathetic, very self-critical) seem like great indicators of when someone might be the most receptive to advertising for SSRIs.
Same. I thought it was just part and parcel with me being a procrastinator by nature. I'm sure that's part of why it resonates so much. But yeah, it's always nice to know you're not as alone in your head as you think you are.
> Another way to look at it is that it's a way to buy government bonds on credit - you can buy a bond and then immediately repo it, using the money you've borrowed to pay for the bond. You have to pay the interest on the repo until you sell the bond and pay it back, but you never have to come up with a big pile of cash.
And the reason you'd do this is... to lock in yield in a declining interest rate environment?