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Is lending not a trade? Two parties exchange money for terms of repayment/debt.

The trading occurring on the Bloomberg terminal is of bonds, equities, and commodities.

Sure, this subthread was about finance people in general, the big short in 2008, and other government-funded bailouts.

If you look at ancestors there are repeated references to trades and trading, not to finance or banking.

Unless you're trading physical goods for other physical goods, ie. bartering, then it's finance.