The Federal Reserve only steps in when there is 1) system wide risk, and 2) when the company they are interfering with owns enough assets to guarantee the fed loans.
* Bear Sterns had healthy assets, Lehman Brothers did not.
AIG had enough healthy insurance premiums to guarantee the loan to fix the unhealthy insurance products.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac owned the home mortgages assets.
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1) WeWork doesn't have a substantial enough real estate position to bring down the entire real estate system.
2) WeWork doesn't have any assets to guarantee a fed loan.
Based on "traveler's checks", I'm going to guess at least a couple decades ago. Cashier probably called 911 because they thought GP was trying to commit fraud with "fake money".
It's been a very long time, but my grandmother always used to give me spending money for vacations in the form of Amex traveller's checks. IIRC you could use them in essentially any situation where you could use an ordinary paper check (which was substantially more common back in those days).
Dairy Queen was a favorite from my childhood, I had moved away from Texas years earlier so I decided to indulge while visiting. These days I’m more into Sonic - the food is better, they have a greater variety of sweet treats, and I really like their iOS app.
> Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person?
San Jose (Bay Area). Yes, everyone is learning in person. I plan to release a (free) book capturing what I learned and wrap up this project (or let someone else take over)
I agree there's a bazillion different headache-inducing ways to skin this cat. I also admit to hacking around in ansible/boto to force it to do what I want, when it doesn't work. I guess I just really don't want to touch prolog.
