The centuries-old debt that's still paying interest
Tom Scott1 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
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Tom Scott visits Yale's archives to look at a 367-year-old bond from a Dutch water authority that is still paying interest. Finance professor Geert Rouwenhorst explains how it works.
Shared as a short, interesting explainer on very long-lived financial instruments.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Tom Scott has an excellent short video about just this topic if you're interested in further information about it. [VIDEO] Quite an interesting video, definitely worth a watch!
These are rookie numbers! Tom Scott has a video about bonds that are being serviced continuously for more than 370 years: [VIDEO]
Right, for Miami, you might want kwelschermen (or a variant thereof: deep impermeable cutoff walls, doesn't need to be concrete, can be made by clay injection too) , californian style water injection, locks that reject salt water. Different place, different geology, different tools. No place is exactly the same. Thing is I figure you need some form of water board to manage it. A political entity that's all about "here we are and here we stay". Once they're set up they're pretty reliable (there's one that's still paying interest on a 370-year old bond [VIDEO] )