Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills.
By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.
"We thought that the ratio would be about 20 to 1," said Andrew Ross, a member of Strike Debt and professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. He said the team initially envisaged raising $50,000, which would have enabled it to buy $1m in debt.
"In fact we've been able to buy debt a lot more cheaply than that."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt
Digital electronic units of virtual fraud can be purchased for what ITS' really worth and SHOULD DERIVATIVES ever get exposed, well then, how much is OWED to the Earth People ALL!???
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