See: Interbank.
Banks deposit dough into each others' coffers. Is this a surprise? Spreads risk. Shares management tech.
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dealer and you won't find too many of them in Lake Tahoe but yeah a broker is [Man talking about broker-dealers in Lake Tahoe]
just someone who takes a commission for selling stuff they live wherever there
are transactions in cars, boats, planes, homes and securities like stocks and
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sexual deviant in Hollywood... Key takeaway here the broker dealer brokers
securities ie they take a commission and they deal in securities like they carry [People playing blackjack]
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them for twelve hundred ninety dollars and 32 cents a share and buying them for
twelve hundred eighty eight dollars seventy nine cents a share making a
spread of...
equals a dollar fifty-three a share the dealer makes a spread of a buck fifty [Dealer and market transferring cash and stock]
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watching it so think about broker-dealer making money on both sides of the trades
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