the buying up of bills (and thus of debts)

in balzac's  eugénie grandet we have just moved into the heart of the matter - the buying up of bills and of debts.

the lawyer is namechecking bentham;

'a bill of exchange is a commodity that is subject to rises and falls in value.  that's a deduction from jeremy bentham's theory of interest... seeing that in principle money is a commodity, according to bentham. and whatever represents money becomes a commodity too...' 

old man grandet has a scheme - what it is ain't exactly clear yet. clearing his brother's name won't be it, this you know already. 

horsemouth is starting to feel more like himself. he has a cough (granted) but his headache and fever seem to have abated. he's still wiped out though. 

it's a beautiful morning. it looks like it will be a glorious day. it looks like his mum was out ahead of him to unleash the chickens. he has watered a few things he could water. he will be away for a week (hopefully everything currently growing will survive and things that have not yet surfaced will surface). 

of course owning debt is where it is at 'passive income' stay home put your feet up and have the money roll in, post a few videos on youtube about your trading courses.