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Finance: What are Junior and Senior Debt? 7 Views
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What's the difference between senior and junior debt? No matter the differences, we know the similarity: you don't want to be in either of them.
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Finance a la shmoop what are senior and junior debt? or like what's the
- 00:07
difference between them well what are they they're debt in a bankruptcy senior
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debt collects what they're owed ahead of junior debt shockingly yep laws of the [Debt transferring to senior debt]
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jungle remember the debt stack? vendors to the
- 00:21
company collect first then employees then the IRS of course because while
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they always have their hands up in your bidness [Woman flips over stack of papers on womans desk]
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then come senior bonds then come junior then come unsecured bonds also known as
- 00:35
debentures then subordinated debenture like debentures below debentures and
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there are all kinds of granular things in the bonds above we're very sorry if
- 00:43
one day in your career you have to care about all of this okay then moving down [Man discussing debt stack]
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the stack then there's preferred stock which collects after the most
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subordinated debentures collect generally and then finally there's
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common stock and well really finally then there's death and well in taxes [Uncle Sam appears at grave stone]
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