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Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.| Bits about Money
This is outside of my usual software-oriented beat, but sometimes people are wrong on the Internet. Most recently, people have been wrong about payment for order flow, an esoteric topic in the investing industry which seems vaguely unsavory to Hacker News commenters, Michael Lewis [0], etc.| www.kalzumeus.com
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A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.| Bits about Money