r/BeAmazed 17d ago

History This is Wild..!!

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u/GenTycho 17d ago

I'm gonna bet those that let it happen are getting kickbacks off it.

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u/MarquisDeBoston 17d ago

Judging by the length of this contract, they earned those kickbacks. My goodness the boldness of this. Any basic ROI analysis would show this is a terrible idea.

They essentially took a 1.16B loan in 2008, where the city had to pay that back to the tune of 150M every year, for 75 years. Thats 13% annually. Thats a 975% return on the loan.

That’s like taking out a 1.16B mortgage at 11% for 75 years. <insert Shane Gillis doing Trump> it’s a terrible deal, the worst deal I’ve ever seen this guy. I said to him it’s a terrible deal they’re all going to laugh at you. I did, I told him that.

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u/DrEdRichtofen 17d ago

it doesn’t sound so bad when you put it that way