After lecture upon lecture from my accountant father and older brother (who majored in economics in college), my brother offered to loan me the money to pay off the camera purchase.

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Indeed, Motsepe says he tried for a year to get a loan to finance the purchase of Anglo's shafts, but no bank would front him the money.

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If an investor, like Soros, had any worthwhile tradable knowledge of the loan facility, he would know that Petrobras is going to use that loan to purchase millions of dollars of services from Transocean, for example, and would invest his money there.

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