Interesting Collateral...

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Apparently, in these tough economic times, one loan office in Latvia is now accepting people's immortal souls as collateral.  What will that actually get you?  Try a loan of up to the equivalent of $500 for up to 90 days (at a large daily interest rate).  I'm not sure I can get any more confused about this situation, but I'm pretty sure there's a better deal out there!

You can read more here.

Completely unrelated picture from wikipedia.org.